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I am confused
Mar 28, 2001

Dr.Holodniy

I am confused about your opinion on recieving oral sex. On this forum and the Hopkins site the doctors say that the chance of becoming infected with HIV from recieving oral sex is practically zero. Dr. Gallant from the hopkins site says that there is NO Risk from recieving oral sex. If recieving oral sex was risky do you also consider kissing risky as well? I called the CDC and they said that there were no documented cases of anyone ever becoming infected this way. Dont you think that if this was a risk there would be at least a handful of documented cases by now? From what I can understand about this form of transmission as long as there is no blood and no biting involved it ishighly unlikely that somone could get infected through this route do you agree or do you feel that recieving oral sex and kissing is a risky practice. The CDC also told me that if recieving oral sex is a persons only risk testing is not necessary. I know that nobody can say risk free but if a bridge has a small crack in it I would not tell every driver that crosses it that there is a small chance that it will colapse.

Response from Dr. Holodniy

So why are you confused? Believe what you want to believe and let it go. My experience is with patients in an acute infection study. That was the history they gave and they are infected. Any questions?



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