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Worried About Getting an HIV positive person sick
A few days ago I was in a meeting with someone who is HIV positive. It has long been my understanding that HIV lowers someone's resistance so badly that they are susceptible to infections that wouldn't really affect HIV negative people. The problem is I have been suffering from a cold. I told this person I had a cold so I didn't want to get near so not to give them my cold. However, I am afraid that I may have given them my cold as I was sitting next to them and that it could lead to this person getting pneumonia due to their compromised immune system.
Has anyone with HIV been exposed to someone with a cold and been okay? I hope I did not do any harm to this person.
Has anyone with HIV been exposed to someone with a cold and been okay? I hope I did not do any harm to this person.
I think you TOTALLY misread my question. I am not afraid of catching HIV from being near an HIV positive person. I am worried that I will get the person sick with my cold. I'm afraid that that person will catch my cold and because they are HIV positive it could turn into pneumonia and be very dangerous to that person, not me.
Relax scaredone529 No risk you cannot get hiv until and unless you have unprotected sex anal/vaginal or shared needle to do drug works which hiv infected person.
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