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Understanding HIV transmission
I'm a bit confused when it comes to HIV transmission, it's pathogenesis and oral sex. It seems there are certain facts that contradict the opinion or fact that HIV does not transmit through oral sex:
1. Semen carries a high viral load of HIV and when swallowed wouldn't it be just as dangerous as swallowing blood.
2. The mouth and throat are openings to the body and bloodstream.
3. If other STD's can transmit easily through oral sex and contracting an STD increases your risk for contracting HIV then why isn't it possible to get HIV this way- when another STD is transmitted.
Reading the other posts on here I will take a stab at the answer. Is it all because of saliva? Saliva inhibits HIV despite not effecting other STD's. If so, is there research currently to try and use this fact to try and treat HIV transmission or the disease itself.
thanks.
1. Semen carries a high viral load of HIV and when swallowed wouldn't it be just as dangerous as swallowing blood.
2. The mouth and throat are openings to the body and bloodstream.
3. If other STD's can transmit easily through oral sex and contracting an STD increases your risk for contracting HIV then why isn't it possible to get HIV this way- when another STD is transmitted.
Reading the other posts on here I will take a stab at the answer. Is it all because of saliva? Saliva inhibits HIV despite not effecting other STD's. If so, is there research currently to try and use this fact to try and treat HIV transmission or the disease itself.
thanks.
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If one takes venom of deadliest king cobra orally, he won't die (I have seen seasoned snake charmers sucking from the punctured twin holes on the skin of the victims to take venom out) and never seen any snake charmer lost his life. This is the same venom, if mixed with blood stream by snake bite, death is confirmed in a couple of hours.
Without going into hardcore scientific deatils (as we are not experts to that extent), route is a key factor for effectiveness. Same applies to HIV, which is the most fragile specie outside the body, but the strongest virus known to mankind to date, when it is residing inside the body.
Why to waste time on reinvent the wheel, better to use the wheel for our benefit
Without going into hardcore scientific deatils (as we are not experts to that extent), route is a key factor for effectiveness. Same applies to HIV, which is the most fragile specie outside the body, but the strongest virus known to mankind to date, when it is residing inside the body.
Why to waste time on reinvent the wheel, better to use the wheel for our benefit
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