How much quantity of blood is sufficient to pass the barrier of the lips?Can you get HIV if your lips accidently touched a dry wound on the skin of an infected person?
You can only get HIV from blood to blood contact. So if there was blood on the wound (it wasnt just a scab) it would infect you. BUT, the virus also has to get into your bloodstream. As long as your lips don't have any open cuts, you can't get the virus. It doesn't pass through skin
So if there wasn't blood on the wound and you don't have cuts on lips, you could not get HIVCan you get HIV if your lips accidently touched a dry wound on the skin of an infected person?
You gave the key word, dry- the HIV virus is whimpy outside the body, and once it's dried- it's dead. AND If you got the blood in your mouth you would either spit it out or if it was swallowed the acid in your stomach would kill the HIV.
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