Really quite worried...can parrots pass on HIV?!

[Lynn789]

I might sound crazy but it's worth it if I get some reassurance.
Basically, my boyfriend works at a pet shop and he tells me about a customer who plays about with the parrot on display. This customer always goes on about how he has HIV and when the parrot nips him on the hand, it draws blood from the hand.

My boyfriend frequently comes home with plasters concealing pretty deep cuts because the parrot bites him a lot.

I'm pretty sure parrots cannot contract HIV? Or can they? and if not, could he have regurgitated the HIV blood and got it into my boyfriend's system?

Im laying in bed with a throat as sore as hell and a temperature through the roof   this worry isn't helping my recovery! :(

[Teak]

Yes it isn't possible and it's a figment of your imagination.

[Lynn789]

So to confirm...what I said about the blood on the beak thing isn't plausible and is just the result of a vivid imagination?

[Lynn789]

the wrong what? :S

[Teak]

You're talking about the wrong  P E C K E R..

[Teak]

You're talking about the wrong ******.

[Lynn789]

lol
It's the idea that the man's blood would remain on the beak and then enter my boyfriend's blood on bite

[Teak]

I would be ashamed to have asked that question being 21 years old.

[Lynn789]

and yes, it's the sore throat that's made me worried I've caught it.