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HIV transmission?
Hello, I was chaffing after walking around all day. I used the bathroom later in the day (I squatted over the toilet) and accidentally peed a little on the toilet which in turn back splashed onto me and on the chaffing area. Upon inspection of the toilet, I noticed there was some blood on it. As the chaffing was fresh from that day (I think of chaffing as like an open rash even). Does this pose a risk of getting HIV because the pee that touched the toilet also touched the blood on the toilet then went on my open chaffing?
HIV is instantly inactivated in air so it can't infect, otherwise all of America would be infected from toilets, workplace cuts and sporting events. You haven't read of anyone getting it this way because it doesn't happen and it doesn't happen because it can''t happen.
It would be front page news if some baby got it in a public changing room or toilet or playground equipment.
It would be front page news if some baby got it in a public changing room or toilet or playground equipment.
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This is true even when it goes directly to an open rash like chafing? That's what my main concern was. That it went straight to an opening.
Reread the first sentence. Until you locate a news story that backs up your new science idea of transmission, then there is nothing left to say, since HIV science I quoted is 40 years old.
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