Is this a question for medical community to the legal community?

Question

My understanding is that HIV virus is too big to penetrate the skin in many parts of human body except mucus and some other membranes get into blood. I also read that HIV can penetrate easily through tears or lacerations in the skin or covering of an organ.

If so, can one prepare the following beverage and administer it to a human being as an act of revenge or other evil intent? If the answer is yes, how can the forensics prove that evil act t o enforce the law?

The beverage consists of an ingradient that will cause ulcers in the stomach, such as strong coffee mixed with alcohol. It may also contain something that tears up the walls of the intestines such as a fine ground silica or glass. Both of the above will create an opening for the HIV virus to penetrate. Then of course it will contain HIV virus or infected blood or serum. It may also contain HSV-2 virus to facilitate HIV virus damage the immune system more readily.

I understand this is a very serious matter. I am not trying to prepare such a beverage or kill any one. I consider human life is extremely precious for it gives an opportunity for the human to experience and evolve into higher levels of existence and spirirituality. But I feel that unassuming people out there in the world should be aware of the fact that such possibility exists and that medical and legal communities should be prepared to deal with it

Answer 1

HIV is not amenable to transmission by the mode you suggest because as viruses go, it is a fragile one and does not survive outside of the body much more than 10-30 mins. It would probably die very quickly in such a beverage as you describe. You'd do better to use HBV instead if you want to do something like this although I don't know if it would survive in a coffee/alcohol beverage for very long either.

If you want to transmit some HIV from one person to another, you should get it into a syringe and inject it into the victim. Sexual transmission is your other usual route for body fluid exchange.

Given the virus wouldn't survive the beverage transmission thing, there won't be any need for forensics.