Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Can you catch HIV/Aids from public washrooms if you have an open sore

Can you catch HIV/Aids from public washrooms if you have an open sore?
i had lazer surgery down there to remove warts and there were some sore left after. and i used a public washroom. so could i have gotten aids\hiv from the result of this. note that the sores were in my inner thigh area
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1 :
omg no!!!!
2 :
no
3 :
no but you should get checked anyway!
4 :
The virus needs warmth and moisture to live. Most public washrooms don't fall into that catagory (now, public baths are another story...).
5 :
No I cant believe people actually still don't know how HIV works grammar school kids know this
6 :
no u don't catch HIV or any other STD by using public washroom. HIV virus dies as soon as it comes into open air. HIV virus lives only in blood and sexual discharges and gets transfer to other body when body fluids are shard by couples ( during sex )
7 :
No. Once the HIV/AIDS virus hits oxygen it dies. It can only be transferred through contact with other body fluids through that open sore. So if an infected person's blood or semen entered your open wound there would be a slight chance of it, but it's not likely. Below is a link to a page about another way people think you can get HIV and it's just not true. It also outlines that HIV cannot live outside it's human host long enough to infect anyone.
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The virus can live for apparently 20 minutes outside of the human body. If there were body fluids on the toilet seat, AND an OPEN sore contacted them, there is a slight possibility. I would say, however, that the chances are slim to none that you caught it.
9 :
Nope! The simple reason why is that you need to have direct fluid to fluid contact (blood in your case), with a person who is infected (and even in the manner of which you describe, this is still unlikely because the sores are in your inner thigh area). The other, and more important reason for why you would not get it in this case, is that NO ONE acquires HIV/AIDS from sharing rest rooms because the HIV virus does NOT exist well in the outside environment, hence why it is not an AIRBORNE disease. Again, it is a disease that is spread by fluid to fluid contact (as mentioned above). Once it hits the outside air, it dies immediately. So, you are all good!
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no
11 :
No. Once HIV is exposed to air, it only lives for a few minutes. You can't get it from a toilet seat or anything else in a public washroom.
12 :
NO. You can't get any thing from a public wash room. Most stds die quickly once they are away from the body and they don't like to live on dry objects for very long. You would have to sit on the seat with some one who has hiv/aids and have sex with them in order to get it that way. The sore could be a left over thing from the surgery. If you worried then have the sore tested.

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