We had a talk today on HIV and the man giving the talk was HIV positive and all the way through the lecture he was spitting on the front row. by any chance would this cause any problems, say if it went into a cut?
2007-02-06 00:24:18 · 3 answers · asked by Matt 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
My health teacher in highschool once told me that you would need to ingest (or swallow) over 5 gallons of saliva before you could get the chance of getting HIV from somebody. It's the same thing if saliva hits cuts. Now...if he was spitting blood, and not saliva, and it went into a cut, then...yes-you do run the chance of HIV. Get it?
It can only be transmitted by sexual intercourse, or blood, which includes if you kissed an HIV positive person that, let's say-had a busted blister in his mouth and...you had a cut in your tongue. It's blood coming together. Hope this helps!
2007-02-06 00:35:54 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technically, yes. But, you would have to chug about 10 gallons of an HIV+ person's saliva before you'd be exposed to enough of the virus to become infected.
2007-02-06 00:33:33 · answer #2 · answered by Vakari 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. HIV is blood born. Saliva would not have enough blood in to to affect or infect anyone.
2007-02-06 00:28:36 · answer #3 · answered by wildbill05733 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋