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Hiv Contamination
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Is it possible to get HIV from food contaminated with sperm?I have seen some similar questions on this forum but they mostly had to do with HIV-contaminated blood being found in food. My question is: let's say somebody in a restaurant put some relatively fresh, contaminated sperm in your food and then...
Response from Shannon Southall
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HiNo need to be anxious, HIV cannot be transmitted this way. Once HIV leaves the body it dies and is unable to infect. So even if someone were to put fluid with HIV in it on something you were to consume it would be dead and unable to harm you.Be...
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CAN I GET HIV FROM CONTAMINATED GELI contracted syphilis, gonorrhaea, chlamydia & other bacteria from a contaminated gel during a... Read more »Contracting HepC or B or HIV from contamined razorMy college son advised me last night that after his shower, he picked up the wrong razor and began... Read more »
Articles
Nigerian State to Resume Polio Vaccination After 8-Month Boycott Due to Rumors of HIV ContaminationThe northern Nigerian state of Kano said on Tuesday that it would end its eight-month boycott of polio vaccinations after tests showed that the vaccines were not contaminated with HIV, Reuters reports (Reuters, 7/19). The state had stopped its... Read more »
Uganda: Quantifying HIV-1 Transmission Due to Contaminated InjectionsIn order for control efforts to be prioritized, "assessments of the importance of different routes of HIV-1 (HIV) transmission are vital," the authors noted. However, the lack of consistent data and the great uncertainty regarding the risk of HIV... Read more »
Irish Government Launches Program to Provide Life Insurance to People With HIV, Hepatitis C Through Contaminated Blood ProductsThe Irish government on Thursday launched a program to provide life insurance, mortgage protection and travel insurance to people who contracted HIV or hepatitis C through contaminated blood products, Ireland's Evening Echo reports ( Evening Echo... Read more »
Scotland to Launch Inquiry Into Contaminated Blood Products That Spread HIV, Other DiseasesOfficials in Scotland plan to launch a public inquiry into the spread of HIV and hepatitis through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s, BBC News reports. The government about one year ago announced that it would hold an... Read more »
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Contaminated Blood from redcross
Posted by nomoreworry4me, 1 Reply
UK Soldiers May Have Been Exposed to Contaminated Blood Australia: Confronting Approach to HIV in Gay Community Large Survey Reveals Sex Habits of Teens New York Lawsuit: Hepatitis Patient Mistakenly Got HIV Medication Maine: State Awarded $82,787... Read more » GETTING INJECTED WITH A CONTAMINATED NEEDLE . HELP
Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies
I went to donate blood on may 9. They had only 2 nurses and a receptionist at the front desk. Since there were 2 people before that were donating already, and only 2 nurses, the receptionist took my temperature, blood pressure and pulse and also...
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OCD, eye, and HIV
Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies
Dear all,I am 30 years old and suffer from OCD. Contamination fears and everything. Here is what happened last saturday. I was at a laundromat washing my clothes. I went to the bathroom and washed my hands. I used a lot of soap because of my... Read more » Could HIV virus survive after normal laundry?
Posted by sushi77, 1 Reply
Hello there,My pants were contaminated by somebody's blood the day before yesterday. Later, I put that pants into the laundry machine with some other clothes . I washed them in normal washing cycle (cold water cycle with normal detergent), and dried... Read more » Advertisement
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