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Can you get HIV or AIDS by taking a bite of pizza from some who is infected or by drinking alcohol after an in


Can you get HIV or AIDS by taking a bite of pizza from some who is infected or by drinking alcohol after an in
I have a relative who found out a year ago that his wife died of AIDS. They were newly weds & for approximately three years she didnt tell him. He found out when he checked the answering machine & heard the doctor's message telling the mother to get the baby who was 2 yrs old at the time tested. The daughter is four years old now. Her test have been coming back negative and my cousin's test have also been coming back negative. But my concern is for two other relatives one ate a piece of pizza tha he ate off of & the other drank shots of tequila with him out of the same shot glass and tasted a mixed drink of his. I knw the vires affects the CD4+T cells and you do have them in your saliva. Can either of my other two relatives contract the virus if any of his future test come back positive? Also i need to know if a person can not contract HIV/AIDS through an infected person's saliva, why not? You have the T cells in your saliva.
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1 :
No the virus can not live in air. You also can not get it from toliet seats either.
2 :
I think if the person drinking off the infected glass had a cut in their mouth, etc, then you could. But the virus needs to come in contact with blood or internally, so the likliness is very low.
3 :
Aids is via Direct blood meeting with blood say u share a syringe or his blood gets into ure blood threw an open cut or something, Or its sexually transmitted u need to drink like 8 cups of this persons salive before there is a chance of getting aids and i use the word CHANCE
4 :
In general HIV is a blood-borne pathogen and will be contracted by body fluid contact or contact with body fluids and the mucus membranes. The notion of whether HIV is spread through saliva is somewhat controversial, although the majority of medical opinion says that this is not the case. I don't believe that there has been a documented case of transmission via saliva alone.
5 :
According to all the training i received while working at a Hospital, the answere would certainly be absolutly NO. So not to wory - Keep in mind that food even if it was contaminated would go into the stomach of acid - not directly into the blood stream, and Tears Sweat and Saliva don't have the concentration to easily infect you. On the other hand, blood and semen have a great concentration of cells to host viruses
6 :
Hi, you appear to have gotten some already great answers. HIV is only transmitted from blood to blood and is dead within 30seconds from leaving the host( so I was taught in Pathophisiology/Microbiology). The scary one is Hep C, that little bugger stays alive for around seven days outside the host. One of my closest friends has HIV and I will still take a slug of beer after he took on or take a bite of pizza.
7 :
Well... if the person had an open sore in there mouth in which the saliva came into contact with blood it is possible, although not probable. Read: 99% chance it won't happen
8 :
Please read the following site: http://www.dph.sf.ca.us/sfcityclinic/drk/hivaids19.asp My g/f who is HIV positive, and has probably progressed to having an AIDS diagnosis, was intimate with someone after the divorce of her first hubbie. Unprotected. That relationship ended. She found and met her present hubbie. A number of years into their marriage, now with their own 5 year old dgtr, she finds out his has HIV. Unfortunately, so does her daughter, who is now 13. I cry everytime I see them. Mom who is 5'10" can't walk alone. Daughter has dark circles and very gray skin coloring. Please educate your children or any children in your life. If you don't feel knowlegdgeable about teaching abstinence or about having safe sex, take them to someone who is qualified.


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