Contracting HIV or AIDS.?

Question

Does the blood have to be wet to contract HIV or can the blood be dry and you be okay?

Answer 1

HIV is known to be transmitted through the following ways:

1) Vaginal, anal, and oral sex

2) Sharing injection needles, occupational exposure (blood-to-blood)

3) Mother-to-infant

If you are not engaging in these activities, you should not be concerned about HIV infection.

One of the reasons why HIV is not spread through the activity you describe is that you would be in contact with minimal amounts of fluid that have been exposed to the environment. HIV does not survive in the environment long enough to pose a risk.

Answer 2

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) which causes AIDS is transmitted through body fluids, in particular blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk.

You can become infected with HIV through:
Unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected partner
Sharing needles when injecting or other use of contaminated injection or other skin-piercing equipment
Blood and blood products, for example, infected transfusions and organ or tissue transplants
Transmission from infected mother to child in the womb or at birth and breastfeeding
You cannot get HIV by:
Casual physical contact
Coughing, sneezing or kissing
Sharing toilet and washing facilities
Using eating utensils or consuming food and beverages handled by someone who has HIV
Mosquitoes or other insect bites
What happens if you have HIV?
HIV weakens the human body's immune system, making it difficult to fight infection. Treatments exist which can prevent the onset of AIDS and although there are side effects, a person can lead a healthy, active life with a long life expectancy if they respond well to treatment. However, they can still transmit the infection to others.

Early symptoms of AIDS include:
Chronic fatigue
Diarrhoea
Fever
Mental changes such as memory loss
Weight loss
Persistent cough
Severe recurrent skin rashes
Herpes and mouth infections
Swelling of the lymph nodes
Opportunistic diseases such as cancers, meningitis, pneumonia and tuberculosis may also take advantage of the body's weakened immune system.

Is there a cure?

Treatments exist which can prevent the onset of AIDS and allow periods of illness to be followed by periods of remission. However, there is no cure for AIDS. Research is currently under way into vaccines, but none is viable as yet.

How does HIV transmission occur?
HIV is a fragile virus, which can only survive in a limited range of conditions. It can only enter the body through naturally moist places and cannot penetrate unbroken skin. Prevention therefore involves ensuring that there is a barrier to the virus, for example condoms, and that skin-piercing equipment is not contaminated

Answer 3

dry blood will not transmit HIV, the virus is very finicky about environment, approximately two minutes outside the body and it's dead, unless it is treated very carefully and cultured just so in a lab. But dried blood, any HIV was dead long before.

Answer 4

my friend any contact with hiv postive blood can get you sick but first it has to get in you body if your wondering t all call your doctor k

Answer 5

wet environment is necessary for virus, or it would die immediately. but , u need to know, there always exsit exceptions, a friend of mine on positivesingles.com was just got the virus but putting a medicine to a cut on his friend, so that's unluck...

Answer 6

it dies when it drys but be careful