hiv virus survive outside body

[parrot 12]

hi guys,
quick question and hopefully few answers:

does the hiv virus survive outside the human body? if yes, for how long?

thanks

[Bioteach_hi]

Please note that a virus is never alive to begin with

[AlwaysAWonderin']

I too have read that HIV doesn't live long outside the body.  I think the more fundamental question is how long it remains infectious, which I believe is an extremely short amount of time.  So while it may be alive for a while (few hours to a day) outside the body, it probably loses its ability to infect a human much sooner.

[parrot 12]

thanks guys for the answers

[cholny29]

Yes as Xhost has already said it does not survive well outside the body. As far as how long it can live outside the body I am not sure but I do know it can't survive very long because this is one of the reasons researchers know that the risk of environmental exposures from coming in contact with this virus is so low because it can't survive well outside its host. Goodluck and Godbless!

[Xhost]

The HIV virus is fragile, and, as such, does not survive for very long at all outside of the human body. Thus, this is
the reason that people do not contract HIV from casual, external contact with bodily fluids. As for how long, not sure, except to say that if you are worried about having contracted HIV from, say, touching a blood spot, you do not have anything to worry about.