is lupus contagious
lupus is not contagious not even through sexual contact you cannot catch lupus from someone or give lupus to someone lupus is not like or related to hiv human immune deficiency virus or aids acquired immune deficiency syndromein hiv or aids the immune system is underactive in lupus the immune system is overactivehile cases of scleroderma that would only affect the skin would most likely not be fatal but could cripple the patient the severe form of it which is called systemic scleroderma or is characterized by having scleroderma affect various parts of the body can be lethal and has been proven so in many cases