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wondering and scared Mar 15, 2005 I'm wondering if I can get HIV from oral sex? I am also wondering if the white blood cells and platelets being low, would the HIV virus do that? |
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| Response from Dr. Conway
 HIV can be transmitted by oral sex, but this is quite unusual. It almost always requires genital secretions of an infected individual and an open mucosal lesion in the mouth of an uninfected host or, the other way around, contact between bloody saliva or oral fluid of an infected individual and an open genital sore of an unifected host. Low white blood cells and platelets can certainly be associated with HIV disease but are very rarely its only sign, and are most usually caused by many, many other things. | ||||||||
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