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OCD or real risk. I can't tell the difference.
A co-worker of unknown status- let's say she is positive just to make this seem more legitimate.
She coughed really hard, hacked up a lung really. She's a smoker. She was coughing in the direction of the door. I immediately walked out the door after she did as I was right behind her. If she coughed up some bloody phlegm and I touched it while passing by, what's my risk of contracting the virus? I know HIV is transmitted through 5 fluids, one of them being blood. I also know it has to enter a portal of entry, a open cut or sore or a mucuous membrane. My question is that blood in mucus or phlegm doesn't "dry" like it does when it's by itself. So if I did get it on me, the virus would remain infectious. If it's on my purse, how long would the virus live there being that it is in phlegm? Please help me.
She coughed really hard, hacked up a lung really. She's a smoker. She was coughing in the direction of the door. I immediately walked out the door after she did as I was right behind her. If she coughed up some bloody phlegm and I touched it while passing by, what's my risk of contracting the virus? I know HIV is transmitted through 5 fluids, one of them being blood. I also know it has to enter a portal of entry, a open cut or sore or a mucuous membrane. My question is that blood in mucus or phlegm doesn't "dry" like it does when it's by itself. So if I did get it on me, the virus would remain infectious. If it's on my purse, how long would the virus live there being that it is in phlegm? Please help me.
You are misinformed about HIV. Wet or dry, it doesn't matter, HIV becomes inactive when exposed to the environment, rendering it unable to infect. You are thinking of other viruses, which remain viable while wet. You can not get HIV from environmental surfaces of any kind, and that would include your purse.
HIV transmission has to happen INSIDE the body, which is why the following are the ONLY ways HIV can be transmitted:
1. Unprotected vaginal and anal sex
2. Sharing IV drug works
3. From mother to child
You never had a risk.
HIV transmission has to happen INSIDE the body, which is why the following are the ONLY ways HIV can be transmitted:
1. Unprotected vaginal and anal sex
2. Sharing IV drug works
3. From mother to child
You never had a risk.
Hiv becomes inactive once exposed to air.Hiv transmission occurs inside the body not outside it.Hiv requires a point of entry,there was none.You had no risk,accept this fact.All the best.
"HIV can't be passed through touching objects", then why are you asking the question?
Blood, semen, pre-cum, vaginal secretions and a nursing mother's breast milk. I know HIV can't be passed through touching objects. I'm asking if there is blood in her phlegm, the blood can't dry properly leaving it to be infectious. If it touches me somehow (I rubbed against it immediately as it happened or my purse rubbed against it) and enters a portal of entry, that's exposure.
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