[Question #319] HIV/STD risk?
105 months ago
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
105 months ago
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105 months ago
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
105 months ago
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Your continued questions suggest that you continue to be worried about a no risk event. There are NO (that's none, never) instances in which HIV has been documented through kissing, deep or otherwise- mouth sores and bleeding or not. Thus, even in the statistically unlikely event that your bedmate was HIV infected, the sorts contacts you mention and imagine would remain no risk. I do not know how to say this more clearly. Your "what if" questions serve the same purpose as questions like, "if an asteroid fell from space and hit me on the head would I have a concussion."- they just are not useful or helpful.
HIV is transmitted through blood transfer when it enters the body, has access to the circulation and then can go on to infect target cells such as lymphocytes. Even with shared needles, injection of contaminated blood does not lead to infection in the majority of instances.
In answer to your specific, what if questions.
1. when blood is not flowing from a wound the body has sealed off access to the circulation.
2. This is a silly question but yes, if blood splashed onto your recent wounds, the risk would still be les than a needle stick
3. No, contact of this sort is not a realistic concern.
I hope these responses will put your concerns to rest. You need to move on. EWH
105 months ago
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