2006-12-05 07:39:53 · 10 answers · asked by Abdullahi Maikano 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
It dies
2006-12-05 07:41:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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.
2006-12-05 15:43:40 · answer #2 · answered by Melli 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How long does the virus survive outside the body? Although HIV can live outside the body for a few hours in certain body fluids, it cannot function when dry. The virus cannot infect someone unless it enters the body.
2006-12-05 15:44:24 · answer #3 · answered by JustMe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It dies off immediately when it touches air. The reason why people that share needles get HIV/AIDs is because they pull back to get the drugs all out. In that process, their blood is it there with the virus then it gets transferred to the next person when their blood mixes.
2006-12-05 15:43:31 · answer #4 · answered by *~*~*~* 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't Know, but it is Enveloped, I Heard, Long Ago (Who Knows if it is True), that it was Capable of Infection After 20 Mins. On a Surface.
2006-12-05 15:48:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. It can actually live outside the body for up to 4 minutes
2006-12-05 15:42:14 · answer #6 · answered by belinda f 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i am hiv positive and i can tell you that of all infectious diseases hiv is the harder one to get because the virus dies within 30 seconds of hitting air,
2006-12-05 23:17:44 · answer #7 · answered by cutie25 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't want to find out the hard way!
2006-12-05 15:49:26 · answer #8 · answered by mom of 2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't bet your life on it
2006-12-05 15:46:41 · answer #9 · answered by Ibredd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it cant spread like that
2006-12-05 15:42:23 · answer #10 · answered by nando 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋