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HIV risk with hyper-excretion (HIV kissing)
Maybe im bein paranoid, but i need to ask.
Recently i kissed a girl with hiv. Her viral load is about 200.000 copies. That was a deep french kiss with saliva. We were makin out for like 30 minutes.
From reading this forum i know there is a very remote risk for transmisson, but i have read this study, and there's
"some individuals express higher levels of HIV RNA in saliva than blood"
and
"saliva HIV levels are more influenced by blood HIV RNA levels"
and
"these findings provide important information on the risk of oral transmission of HIV"
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1016/j.femsim.2005.03.002/full
So... Im a little worried. Is is possible for a person to be so called hyper-excretor if his viral load in blood is too high? Am i at risk from that kiss?
(sorry for my gramma, im not english)
Recently i kissed a girl with hiv. Her viral load is about 200.000 copies. That was a deep french kiss with saliva. We were makin out for like 30 minutes.
From reading this forum i know there is a very remote risk for transmisson, but i have read this study, and there's
"some individuals express higher levels of HIV RNA in saliva than blood"
and
"saliva HIV levels are more influenced by blood HIV RNA levels"
and
"these findings provide important information on the risk of oral transmission of HIV"
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1016/j.femsim.2005.03.002/full
So... Im a little worried. Is is possible for a person to be so called hyper-excretor if his viral load in blood is too high? Am i at risk from that kiss?
(sorry for my gramma, im not english)
Vance, thank you for your reply. Is it really no risk at all, with all possible circumstances?
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