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HIV from deep kissing with gum disease and blood

Hey I needed some clarification about hiv transmission, I recently had a encounter where I deep kissed another guy but at the time we both had bleeding gums, I could taste blood which is when we stopped my oral health isn’t great as I have bleeding gums an periodontal disease. What would the risk be here of getting hiv? About 2-3 weeks after the encounter I came down with what I thought was a chest infection but after getting a X-ray my chest is clear.

The symptoms I had were aches and pains, low grade fever, fatigue, sore throat and a cough now it’s been 4-5 weeks since these symptoms started I still have aches and pains and a dry cough which the doc is investigating could these be ars symptoms?
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You've been answered here as well as your previous threads regarding HIV transmission and that this is not a risk.

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HIV is not spread by kissing. This is the case whether or not there are bleeding gums or canker sores or anything of that Nature.

No one has ever been infected with HIV through kissing and you won't be the first.
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That’s what I thought but then I came across the cdc website where they said there was a reported case of transmission through kissing, also that bleeding gums raise the risk of transmission
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