Dose ( AIDS ) transmitted by saliva .. Kissing ?
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yes, even by oral kissing\n\nAIDS-related virus spreads through kissing - Herpes\nDANIEL Q. HANEY / AP 9nov00\n\nBOSTON -- A form of the herpes virus that causes an AIDS-related skin cancer appears to spread through kissing.\n\nHerpes virus 8 was discovered six years ago and causes a skin cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma. In the United States, the cancer occurs almost exclusively in people with AIDS.\n\nSome had suspected that the virus was transmitted through sexual intercourse, but the new research from the University of Washington, reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, contradicts that idea.\n\nDr. John Pauk and others tested 39 gay men who were infected with the virus but did not have Kaposi's sarcoma. They found the virus in 30 percent of their saliva samples and mouth swabs, compared with 1 percent of anal and genital samples. When present, the virus levels were also much higher in saliva than in semen.\n\n``The important thing is it suggests that oral-oral contact plays some role in transmission, although more study is needed to confirm that,'' said Pauk.\n\nThe study also found that homosexual men who engaged in ``deep kissing'' -- kissing that involves a lot of contact with saliva -- appeared to be at substantially higher risk of catching the virus.\n\nKaposi's sarcoma causes purple skin blotches and can also attack the internal organs. Like many other diseases that kill people with AIDS, it usually affects those with weakened immune systems. The virus alone rarely causes sickness among people with normal disease defenses.\n\nThe research ``definitely has public health implications for people infected with HIV,'' said Dr. Ronald O. Valdiserri of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, he said there was not enough data to recommend that people with HIV avoid deep kissing.\n\nThirty percent to 50 percent of HIV-infected people who catch herpes virus 8 will eventually get Kaposi's sarcoma. Kaposi's sarcoma has been present for centuries in Southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. But it was rare in the United States until the start of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s.\n\nExperts say the virus is still largely confined to homosexuals in the United States, and that is why kissing has not yet spread herpes virus 8 among heterosexuals.\n\nDr. Anna Wald, another University of Washington researcher, noted that herpes virus 8 is closely related to the common Epstein Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis, long known as the kissing disease.\n\n``Teen-agers tend to get this when they start kissing,'' she said. ``The reason they get Epstein Bar virus and not herpes virus 8 is that most people have Epstein Bar virus, but relatively few have herpes virus 8.''\n\nDr. Patrick S. Moore of Columbia University, who discovered the virus, said exposure to saliva may explain the high rate of infection in parts of Africa, where more than 70 percent of people may carry herpes virus 8.\n\nOther forms of the herpes virus cause chicken pox, shingles, cold sores and genital herpes.
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No, it was definitely not a fatal kiss. Think about how rampant the virus would actually be if it could be transmitted by kissing, sharing glasses, utensils, or toothbrushes. It takes an infected person's bodily fluids (not including saliva) to contact your mucous membranes (inside the mouth, vagina, penis, or anus) to potentially transmit HIV, the AIDS virus. No cases of HIV transmitted by kissing alone have been reported. In fact, it would take a quart size Chinese food container of saliva AT THE SAME TIME to have enough concentration of the virus to potentially be transmitted. \n\nHere are the ONLY ways you can get the AIDS virus: \n\n\nContact of infected blood, semen, or vaginal and cervical secretions with mucous membranes (i.e., sexual contact, unprotected health workers) \n\nInjection of infected blood or blood products (i.e., with shared needle) \n\nPerinatal transmission (from infected mother to fetus) \nIf you are practicing safer sex — vaginal, anal, and oral — and are not sharing needles, you should have nothing to worry about.
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Definitely, I know of someone right now that contracted HIV from oral sex. Condom is the only safer way to go.
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Not necessarily... See AIDS transmission does not necessarily happen though digestive tract.... \n\nIf the person who had the semen has a small gash in his/her mouth and or digestive tract there is a possibility of infection. Since the stomach is filled with acid it is not a good environement for most viruses.\n\nStill the best way to find out is to get tested and further testing withing after a 6 month waiting period.
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Yes there is a possibility but it is very small becuase you can not tranmit hiv through saliva so the first thing that wouldneed to happen for you to get infected is that she would have to have an open wound infection or cut of any kind in her mouth there are however several other stds that are easy to transmit through oral sex so it is allways a good idea to use a condom
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If the cut or laceration has exposed blood (bodily fluid) on both folks, it is possible to transmit HIV (the virus that can lead to AIDS if unchecked). However, it is more likely to transmit hepatitis. HIV is a very fragile virus that dies in contact with the air once outside the body. However, if the fluids exchange in very intimate contact where air is not present (pressing lips and rubbing frantically will do it), the chances for infection increase. There is no current evidence (in the 20 plus years we have been studying the disease transmission modes) that saliva transmits enough of the viable virus to cause infection.
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Hi buddy,\n\nThe HIV virus is a very fragile virus that gets easily killed on drying or contact with ordinary toilet soap or even very dilute spirit.The world wide fear of this infection is not because it gets easily transmitted or that its a tough virus to kill.Its just because the virus attacks the patient's immune system. Death in an HIV infected person comes in the form of other diseases that attack the person when his body's defence mechanisms are in a weak state.\n Human saliva is not demonstrated by research to contain enough load of virus as to cause infection to another person ingesting it. There is a theoretical possibility of the virus getting transmitted thru deep kissing, if the kisser has a mouth ulcer. The virus in that case has a (very small) chance to enter the body of the individual thru this open wound in the mouth. Still the virus may not survive the variable pH levels and salt concentrations of the human saliva.   And all the more, the probability of this type of  transmission is less than 0.01% . In day to day life that kind of probability is considered as ZERO chance...!  Hence we, healthcare workers don't consider saliva as a potential source of infection. Like wise, the chance of a mosquito transmitting the virus is somewhere near 0.004%..!!\n\nRegarding Web sources on AIDS, the United Nations' website is the ultimate knowledge bank ... Log on to www.unaids.org and find a wealth of info and links.\nAll the best.\nBye.
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I would assume not.  If you cannot catch it from the following ways, I would guess a cigarette is not much different:\n\nThere is no evidence that HIV can be spread through the following: kissing; SHARING FOOD UTENSILS, towels or bedding; swimming in pools; using toilet seats; using telephones; or having mosquito or other insect bites.   http://www.intelihealth.com/ih/ihtih/wsi...\n\nAND:\n\nYou cannot contract AIDS from: beds, breathing, chewing pencils, clothing, combs or hairbrushes, coughing or sneezing, drinking fountains, door knobs, gum, hot tubs, hugging, kissing, nail files, shaking hands, sharing food or drinks, silverware, sitting in the same classroom, swimming pools, tears, telephones, toilet seats, touching \ntowels \nhttp://www.caps.ucsf.edu/capsweb/curricu...
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Open mouth kissing with a person who is HIV+ with open sores is not a 100% safe activity as HIV is transmitted by blood, semen and vaginal fluids. Although it is unlikely that you would get HIV this way, you do not want to take the risk. HIV does not live well in saliva, but blood sometimes found in saliva contains the virus when the person is infected. Many times people have small cuts and scrapes in their mouth that they are not even aware of and the possibility exists that the infected person's blood from the sores could enter the uninfected person's body through these cuts. If enough blood enters the person's body through a cut or scrape, the person could become infected with HIV. This is very unlikely and there are no such documented cases of HIV being transmitted this way.\n\nIt's not a good idea to kiss anyone that has a sore in his or her mouth. A sore in the mouth is a sign of a virus, infection or a cold. You do not want to expose yourself to any illnesses. Being sick is no fun!\n\nIf you or your partner have any concerns about your sexual health or sexually transmitted diseases and live in Northern New Jersey, please contact the Young/Adult Center for Health at (973) 971.5199. If you live outside of Northern New Jersey, please call your local teen health center. These centers can see you confidentially and on a reduced cost or no cost basis.\n\nTry to keep your self healthy!
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There is no evidence that HIV can be spread through the following: kissing; SHARING FOOD UTENSILS, towels or bedding; swimming in pools; using toilet seats; using telephones; or having mosquito or other insect bites. \nhttp://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8776/24762/195726.html?d=dmtHealthAZ\n\nAND:\n\nYou cannot contract AIDS from: beds \nbreathing \nchewing pencils \nclothing \ncombs or hairbrushes \ncoughing or sneezing \ndrinking fountains \ndoor knobs \ngiving or donating blood \ngum \nhot tubs  hugging \nkissing \nnail files \nshaking hands \n***sharing food or drinks*** \nsilverware \nsitting in the same classroom \nswimming pools \ntears \ntelephones \ntoilet seats \ntouching \ntowels \nhttp://www.caps.ucsf.edu/capsweb/curricula/aidslec.html
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Yes, if you swap saliva. Why do you think they call it the kissing disease?
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HIV/AIDS is spread through body fluids (ie blood, semen, vaginal fluids) as well as from used infected needles.  If someone who is HIV positive is giving a facial massage, you cannot contract it simply by them touching you.  However, if they have a cut on their hand and you have an open sore on your body, it is possible to contract it that way.  But even in that case there still has to be enough active HIV components in the blood in order to affect you.  If this is a personal experience for you, sounds like you are worrying over nothing.  If your mind still isn't at ease, wait about two months and get tested!
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yes it can be transmitted by saliva
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Nope, just in the unlikely situation that both kissing ends have oral ulcers that are bleeding, Otherwise no. AIDS is transmitted sexually, vertically( from mother to fetus),  by sharing needles used for drugs(most common in prisons), and by getting blood transfusion frim an infected donor.
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Only if you pass saliva or blood with the kiss.\nWhich body fluids transmit HIV? \nThese body fluids have been shown to contain high concentrations of HIV: \n\nblood \nsemen \nvaginal fluid \nbreast milk \nother body fluids containing blood \nThe following are additional body fluids that may transmit the virus that health care workers may come into contact with: \n\nfluid surrounding the brain and the spinal cord \nfluid surrounding bone joints \nfluid surrounding an unborn baby \nHIV has been found in the saliva and tears of some persons living with HIV, but in very low quantities. It is important to understand that finding a small amount of HIV in a body fluid does not necessarily mean that HIV can be transmitted by that body fluid. HIV has not been recovered from the sweat of HIV-infected persons. Contact with saliva, tears, or sweat has never been shown to result in transmission of HIV. \n\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/aids.html
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It is not a forgone conclusion that oral sex does NOT transmit AIDS.\n\nOral sex is a lower risk behavior, but any sexual behavior carries some risk.\n\nTake precautions in this area most especially if you don't know the status of the person you are having sex with.
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HIV is transmitted through blood, semen, vaginal secretions...so that means no oral...sorry. Don't think that precautions like "Dental Dams" are worth the risk, they aren't.