So how long does it take to inactivate and kill the HIV virus???

[byronxiong]

my question is so how long does it take to inactivate and kill the HIV virus inside of one drop of HIV contaminated blood or semen while it exposes to the air???? Is 10 hours enough??if not,how so????thank you so much if guys can give me a  lesson....lol!!!!

[byronxiong]

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[RainLover71]

Any amount of hiv virus,once exposed to air becomes inactive and therefore unable to infect.If it didn,t the whole world would be infected by now.

[byronxiong]

So which you mean even it is in high concentrations but NOT in a laboratory setting,and once this hight concentration blood gets exposed to the air while it still becomes inactive immediately and can NOT be transmissible within a very short time(like you said within seconds) does this situation still suit your "seconds" setting??or does it have to satisfy the low concentrations term also
????

[RainLover71]

YES really.You are talking about the hiv virus in high concentrations and in a laboratory setting,i,m talking about out in the enviroment--air.See the difference.

[byronxiong]

Oh,really???but why people always talk about it takes hours to dry a drop of blood thus it takes hours to inactivate the virus inside of it or so....and once the virus get to touch with lymphocytes while it will become active and transmissible even the blood has been dried for hours......due to it is a high contaminated one drop.....

[RainLover71]

SECONDS.