can you get hiv by touching things in public places or stepping on things like a!
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you can't get HIV unless it directly comes in contact with you blood. The blood or fluid of the person with HIV would have to come in contact with your blood or fluid.
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The HIV virus actually is very fragile, and cannot live very long off its host.which is why you cannot catch it from a toilet seat, or sink faucet. It can only be transfered through bodily fluids.saliva, blood, etc.
no! HIV is transmitted through body fluid via a breakage in the skin comtinuity(sore) or through permeable membranes such as the vaginal lining. the virus also does not survive for long outside the human body so chances that you get it from things in the environment are almost nil
Someone above posted that HIV is transmitted through saliva - it is not.
Many people believe this because there are oral HIV tests - they actually aren't collecting saliva, but cells from the inside of your cheek.
As for bandages & touching things - the only way to get HIV is to come in contact with infected blood or semen - and you must have a way for it to get inside you.
Once HIV hits the air it dies within seconds. Don't worry.
You could not rule out the possibility. Microbes surround us at all times. However, we have good defenses against microbes. When the skin is open and the bloodstream exposed we become more vulnerables to invading microbes.
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