Can Hepatitis Survive On Soap

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Survival of Hepatitis B and C

Dr. McGovern,Do you have any solid information as to how long Hepatitis B and C survive on a surface off the body? I'm concerned I may have come into contact with one/both of the above.Thanks...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

Information on virus survival is not actually helpful. The information that is most important is that getting hepatitis B or C requires some entry of blood into your bloodstream -either through sex or via injection drug use.... Read more »

how can having both hepatitis c and prostate cancer limit your survival rate?

i know someone who has been diagnosed with both of these and he has given up on even attempting to... Read more »

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D. »

Virus in Soap Dispenser

Hi, I was just wondering how long the hiv virus can survive in a soap dispenser at home or in a... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

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Articles

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Survival Gene May Be Key to Controlling HIV and Hepatitis

Dr. Marc Pellegrini and Dr. Greg Ebert of the Infection and Immunity Division of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia, and colleagues from the University of Toronto conducted research that discovered a gene... Read more »

Survival of HIV-Infected Injection Drug Users (IDUs) in the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Era, Relative to Sex- and Age-Specific Survival of HIV-Uninfected IDUs

It remains unclear whether HIV-infected injection drug users (IDUs) in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) have durations of survival similar to those for comparable HIV-uninfected IDUs. The aim of the current study was to... Read more »

Hepatitis Highlights From CROI

Table of Contents Long HCV Survival in Syringes Treatment Response and AIDS Progression Rapid Liver Disease Progression? HCV Clearance and CD4 Cell Recovery IL28B Gene Variation HBV DNA in Semen This year's Conference on Retroviruses and... Read more »

Survival of HIV in the Environment

Concerning the survival of HIV in the environment, two facts are: HIV does not survive well outside the body. HIV has to be grown in large amounts to be studied in laboratories. Although HIV has been kept alive under certain laboratory... Read more »

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HIV Risk in Sharing Soap (Masterbuted with the same soap)

Posted by arjun, 3 Replies

Dear Doctor,

I can understand HIV will not transmit in this way, but put my mind at rest I am asking this question.

I have severe back pain, so went for Ayurvedic Massage (Professional).

Had a massage, full oil on my body So, the person wiped... Read more »

Suriviving AIDS and surviving the attack on NY

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I'm so down now. I living downtown ny and am struggling with HIV and hep c. It smells down here of burning. I'm so distraught though I lost no one but my city. It seems all my struggles never end. HIV, Hepatitis and now this. I can't take anymore.... Read more »

I dropped my soap........

Posted by franfrog, 4 Replies

Can you get it for me! EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW
That is almost as bad as feet Read more »

cocaine hiv and hepatitis c

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I WAS DOING COCAINE WITH A COUPLE ONE NIGHT AND THEY HANDED ME THE STRAW AFTER I DID A LINE I LOOKED AND IT HAD BLOOD IN AND AROUND THE STRAW. I HAD A
COLD SORE IN MY NOSE. THE GIRL CALLED ME ;ATER AND TOLD ME HE HAS HEPATITIS C AND HIV CALLED CDC... Read more »

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