hiv in food at restaurants and fast foods?

Question

say a cook with hiv cuts his finger with a knife and drops a single drop of blood into wet foods and a lukewarm soups, the soups areat very neutral temperatures. then the wet foods (non dry foods) and the lukewarm soups with fresh blood from the cook with hiv is served right away to customers. will the customers get hiv? they say that hiv in a single drop of blood outside the body will become impotent or will die if the hiv infected blood is outside the human body. they say that when blood dries up or when it clots as it is exposed to the outside environment, hiv will die. how will blood clotting or drying destroy or kill hiv? what if the hiv infected blood is dropped in soups or any other wet foods? how will the blood clot or how will that drop of blood dry up if it is dropped in wet foods and soups at very neutral temperatures? i have read from wikipedia that a single human cell is about 60 times bigger than a single hiv. come to think of it, imagine just 100 hiv within or among other 10 000 to 100 000 cells like rbc and wbc in a single drop of blood. how can external environmental factors penetrate into those 100 hiv among thousands of other cells? wont those other thousands of blood cells act as a barrier for external environmental agents to penetrate and destroy hiv? imagine food with a very fresh drop of blood infected with hiv be taken or eaten by restaurant or fast food customers.

Answer 1

I am sure many will give complicated answers to this question and confuse a lot of people , but the simple answer is that the soup you are suggesting goes into the gullet nd into the stomache where the acid juices and other digestive elements destroy the virus .

A better question would be if a person with the HIV virus were to take a toothpick and prick himself and immediately prick you in the arm with that same toothpick - would the virus then infect you ?

Answer 2

After reading your long details, I would say that the customer may or may not get an HIV infection.

There are many factors involved in getting infected- like genotype of the virus, viral load, condition of the mouth, etc. It would also depend on customers' "natural" ability to resist infection.

HIV can be transmitted through an ingestion of an infected substance such as milk or foods but the risk is very very low perhaps attributed to the digestive acids and enzymes plus the length of time the HIV containing-medium has been out of the body needs to be considered too.

As the main feature of the HIV, it makes the human immune system futile. The body's immune defenses cannot make differentiation of the invading (HIV) cells.Thus, it looses it ability to destroy the HIV. In fact, there can even be a confusion and the body actually target and destroy the defense cells in addition to the invasion of the HIV.

I guess you are forgetting something that HIV is a virus- it isn't dead,it isn't alive.However, as HIV's ability to replicate requires a host, they won't be able to form a new one once outside the body.Research findings also found that once outside the body,an HIV looses about 99% of the number of its infectious viral particles. It has been said that drying an HIV outsde the body virtually eliminates all its infectious particles. However,whatever findings the researches could have found as of now, they do not reveal the entirety of possible things that can happen. Highlighting that viruses actually are not yet fully understood through all of the time, the potential risks are all just standing by.

Giving consideration that when you have your meal in a restaurant, you are not spending that much time to eat what you had ordered. The short period you spend could not guarantee that the HIV "astrayed" out in your bowl of food or soup had undergone to the process of losing its infective properties. You could pssibly get a single HIV which can then find a way to have a triumphant access to your system- then out of one can multiply that instantly.

Well, imagining a drop of an infected blood in a bowl of your soup is quite gross but very possible. A drop of sweat or a a splash of saliva in your soup or dish have possibility as well- and both are body fluids too.....Lucky you if the HIV in your soup had lost its infectious agents or if your body had successfully got rid of any of them. You can have chances of getting unlucky as well.....having AIDS out of an HIV from a soup...

Well..........

Added details:
HIV is said to be fragile, and it dies immediately once the virus is outside the body in a dry form. Even in a wet state, it does not live long when exposed to heat, detergents, or disinfectants. When stored at 4°C in blood banks , it can live for about 3 weeks (or longer), or till the white cell disintegrates. In a frozen state it can survive for years.

Answer 3

This is an extremely unlikely scenario.
HIV doesn't live outside the body - even if the soup was "blood temperature" it isn't carrying oxygen. It isn't inside the body doing body things. Also, you'd have to roll that single viral cell into an open wound inside your mouth to even have an exposure, and that would have to find a way into your blood stream. Because it wouldn't live in your stomach.

Is the soup the same pH as human blood? Is there more salt in it than is carried in human blood? How about sugar? All of these things would infect the viability of the virus negatively.

This is 99.99999999999% impossible.

Answer 4

Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well in the environment, 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. Since HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host. HIV is sensitive to fluctuations in temperature and the presence of oxygen. One place that HIV has been know to survive in is drug injection syringes since these are airtight and often contain blood from the injector.
And yes, it can be transmitted orally.

Answer 5

the answer is no, you will not get aids this way.

there is way too much paranoia about HIV/AIDS in the world.

Answer 6

aids cannot be transmitted oraly so even if someone drinks the infected blood he still doesn't get it.