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I read on the symptoms for acute HIV infection here in med help that when one is barely infected is when it is veer contagious. So I guess that means high viral load. My question is how long does HIV take to become inactive. The doctors seem to talk about sufficiency of the virus rather than inactivity in regards to transmission outside the body. How does high viral load come into play.
A poster below said that he had threesome using a condom. He was worried that if one girl had the virus he could transfer it to the other while switching to the other girl and not changing condoms. Nobody responded to his question so I asked that somebody reply. A person said HIV becomes inactive in three seconds when it is outside the body.
In this post I stated when a person is barely infected it is when they are the most infectious., I.e. High viral load. My questions are really why do some people here talk about HIV not being able infect outside it's host. Whether that takes into account high viral load. Why doctors here seem to talk about that there must sufficient amounts of the virus to infect, instead of HIV being inactive outside the body.
In this post I stated when a person is barely infected it is when they are the most infectious., I.e. High viral load. My questions are really why do some people here talk about HIV not being able infect outside it's host. Whether that takes into account high viral load. Why doctors here seem to talk about that there must sufficient amounts of the virus to infect, instead of HIV being inactive outside the body.
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