HIV Symptoms Slide 21 of 57 HIV Symptoms HIV infection can be transmitted at any stage of the disease. After infection some individuals experience a flu-like illness a month or two after exposure. The symptoms disappear within 1-4 weeks.
Symptoms can include fever, headache, tiredness and lymph node enlargement.
People are very infectious during this stage. Infected adults may enter an asymptomatic phase in which more severe symptoms may not surface for more than a decade prior to the onset of full-blown AIDS .