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Example: When a nurs take the blood from a people who infected HIV and that blood was drop down on the floor in laboratory. So how long can HIV alive?

2007-08-06 22:12:34 · 1 answers · asked by Boroath B 1 in Health Diseases & Conditions STDs

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Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well outside the body, 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. 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 for days or even weeks under precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have shown that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the amount of infectious virus 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 interpretations of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have in some instances caused unnecessary alarm.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa35.htm

2007-08-06 22:33:32 · answer #1 · answered by Alli 7 · 1 0

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