If hiv blood is left for five minutes on a surface and is then washed off with water is there still enough hiv on the table to transmitt? What if you use soap, handwash or shampoo - would that kill the hiv instantly? I would be very grateful if you give a scientific or factual answer.
2007-02-08 05:50:56 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
HIV in the blood can survive outside the human body for about 20 minutes. But, if the sample is too small, then it is nearly impossible to transmit it. The soap doesn't kill it, but if yuo wipe off the blood and leave almost no trace of it, then the sample at that instant becomes too small to cause an HIV infection if you , I don't know, were to lick the table or something. Eventually, while you're cleaning, the virus dies.
2007-02-10 12:54:18 · answer #1 · answered by Dana Mulder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CDC states that HIV is certainly dead once the blood containing it is dry. Antibiotic soaps or detergents will not kill a virus. It would be very unlikely to contract HIV from a surface, even if there was wet blood, as it dies almost instantly after contact with the air.
2007-02-08 14:39:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋