how long can HIV live outside the body?

Question

If one injected HIV containing sperm semen in hair conditioner. How long can the virus stay infectious? what about shampoo? I heard HIV can only die when the semen dries out so if it was injected in hair conditioner or shampoo it will stay infectious for longer period of time?

there is this creep neigbor in sharehouse. so im concerned about my shampoo and conditioner

there is this creep neigbor in sharehouse. so im concerned about my shampoo and conditioner

Answer 1

It lasts about two hours when produced in excess under artificial conditions but dries up or loses its infection when change in temperature or as u say shampoo and things r mixed with it . It wun survive in a shampoo bottle.
It can stay alive in a blood sample in an airtight packet.
You wun get infected by using a shampoo even if its infected with HIV until u have an open wound , so you dun need to worry anyway.

HIV is sensitive to fluctuations in temperature and the presence of oxygen. One place that HIV has been know to survive in is drug injection syringes since these are airtight and often contain blood from the injector.



HIV in the Environment

Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well in the environment, making the possibility of environmental transmission remote. HIV is found in varying concentrations or amounts in blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, saliva, and tears. (See below, Saliva, Tears, and Sweat.) In order to obtain data on the survival of HIV, laboratory studies have required the use of artificially high concentrations of laboratory-grown virus. Although these unnatural concentrations of HIV can be kept alive under precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have showned that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the number of infectious viruses by 90 to 99 percent within several hours. Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher than those actually found in blood or other specimens, drying of HIV- infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental transmission to that which has been observed--essentially zero.

Incorrect interpretation of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have alarmed people unnecessarily. Results from laboratory studies should not be used to determine specific personal risk of infection because
1) the amount of virus studied is not found in human specimens or anyplace else in nature, and
2) no one has been identified with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface; Additionally, since HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.

Answer 2

Outside the body, HIV can survive for about 20 minutes. It has a very short life span when not in the human body. If it were in an airtight syringe, then it can survive from a very long time. That's how people were able to get HIV and AIDS from being drug users and sharing needles. Inside the medicine bottle, I doubt it would survive inside it for very long. The virus needs very specific conditions in order to survive. These conditionas are not suitable inside a medicine bottle. Basically, when HIV infected blood dries, if it has been spilled outside the body, then the risk of getting HIV from that blood drops down to 0%.

Answer 3

I believe that the virus dies as soon as it is exposed to air. If you are still worried about it after reading the following article, the simplest thing is to bring your shampoo in and out of the bathroom each time.

Here is an article I found written by a doctor:

The lifespan of the virus is about 20 minutes, maximum, in a drop of
blood that lands on a surface outside the body. Once that droplet dries,
the virus is dead. No worries there. The chances of you putting the
cut portion of your finger on a blood-smear that is fresh enough to contain
a sufficient amount of live virus to cause infection is infinitely small.

20 minutes also holds for body fluids on a toilet seat; this is from an
actual experiment. In order to catch it, you would have to bring *broken*
skin into contact with the fluid. The virus doesn't get sucked through
membranes just like that. It needs to have some way into the blood stream.

And remember, once the virus particles are exposed to the air, they begin
to die. After 20 minutes, there is effectively no live virus left. And
a dried smear, certainly, is not going to pose a very great danger.

Here is the bottom line: Don't worry about borrowing books from the
library. Don't worry about going to the public restroom. You need only
worry if you intend to have unprotected sex with a person who has been
exposed to the virus. Minute tears and scrapes often occur in the skin
during various sex acts, and *these* are the routes through which the virus
is transmitted.

Answer 4

I also asked this same question four times, and didn't receive a proper answer

Answer 5

I've heard up to 2 weeks in moisture and 1 week otherwise.

Answer 6

I'm not tryin to scare anyone, and I thought I knew everything, but... I read this story about a girl in austrailia whos sister caught it from her and she herself didn't even know she had it, yikes!!! I need to find that website because obviously aids ain't no joke!