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Can HIV Virus survive in new condom?
Hello, I'm very worried and I have a question:
Assuming that a person use a cylinder and a needle to inject HIV blood into a sealed condom through the packaging, and 30 hours later I unseal and use this condom to have sex with my girlfriend. Can my girlfriend get HIV infected from this condom?
I know that HIV virus can't survive outside the body for a long time out side the body and in the air, but in my scenario, the environment inside a sealed condom is a vacuum and I'm not sure in this case HIV virus can survive or not.
Thank you.
Assuming that a person use a cylinder and a needle to inject HIV blood into a sealed condom through the packaging, and 30 hours later I unseal and use this condom to have sex with my girlfriend. Can my girlfriend get HIV infected from this condom?
I know that HIV virus can't survive outside the body for a long time out side the body and in the air, but in my scenario, the environment inside a sealed condom is a vacuum and I'm not sure in this case HIV virus can survive or not.
Thank you.
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"Assuming that a person use a cylinder and a needle to inject HIV blood into a sealed condom through the packaging..."
Why would anyone assume that? There would be so many signs that a condom had been tampered with, including the fact that you'd see the blood, and the condom would likely be dried out from being exposed to air. You're more likely to see Santa Claus riding on the Loch Ness Monster as they run over the Easter Bunny than you are to experience such an event. NOBODY gets HIV this way - people running around injecting blood into things is the stuff of urban legend, nothing more.
HIV is spread by having unprotected, penetrative anal or vaginal sex, or by sharing IV drug works with other IV drug users. Avoid both of those, and you'll never have to worry about HIV.
Why would anyone assume that? There would be so many signs that a condom had been tampered with, including the fact that you'd see the blood, and the condom would likely be dried out from being exposed to air. You're more likely to see Santa Claus riding on the Loch Ness Monster as they run over the Easter Bunny than you are to experience such an event. NOBODY gets HIV this way - people running around injecting blood into things is the stuff of urban legend, nothing more.
HIV is spread by having unprotected, penetrative anal or vaginal sex, or by sharing IV drug works with other IV drug users. Avoid both of those, and you'll never have to worry about HIV.
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Thank you for your answer. I didn't buy this condom, I receiver it from a woman who hate me so much. So this is my reason of my worry.
Don't so about this scenario occurred or not, if it occurred, can my girlfriend get HIV infected from this condom?
I know that HIV virus can't survive outside the body for a long time out side the body and in the air, but in my scenario, the environment inside a sealed condom is a vacuum and I'm not sure in this case HIV virus can survive or not.
Don't so about this scenario occurred or not, if it occurred, can my girlfriend get HIV infected from this condom?
I know that HIV virus can't survive outside the body for a long time out side the body and in the air, but in my scenario, the environment inside a sealed condom is a vacuum and I'm not sure in this case HIV virus can survive or not.
This is a very unrealistic , anxiety driven question. Why do you even use things handed by a person who 'hates' you, especially a condom? Personally, if I intend malice towards you, I would not go look for a person who has hiv, draw their blood, buy a condom, inject it inside and give it to you.
As CurfewX said, there would have been many tell-tale signs a condom which has been tampered. Anyways, even in the rarest of rare circumstances of what you claim did happen, you would not have had any risk. Once the package is punctured, it is not vacuum sealed anymore, air would have gone in to null the blood as well as drying out the condom. In order to use the condom, you would have taken it out from the package, exposing the condom to the air, before puting it on your penis. This act alone is good enough to render the virus null. You had no risk.
As CurfewX said, there would have been many tell-tale signs a condom which has been tampered. Anyways, even in the rarest of rare circumstances of what you claim did happen, you would not have had any risk. Once the package is punctured, it is not vacuum sealed anymore, air would have gone in to null the blood as well as drying out the condom. In order to use the condom, you would have taken it out from the package, exposing the condom to the air, before puting it on your penis. This act alone is good enough to render the virus null. You had no risk.
OK, my real scenario is, I bought 3 new condoms to overnight with a new girdfriend who I don't know about her status. So I'm worried that she may injected her HIV blood to one of the condoms while I was sleeping. And 30 hours later I took this condom to home and use it to have sex with my girlfriend. I just worry for my girlfriend. May my girlfriend get HIV infected from this condom?
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