Question 1

is it possible to get aids / hiv from sharing a cigarette?

Accepted Answer

Unlikely: Hiv is obtained through seminal fluids or blood. Unless you are smoking a blood-laden or semen-laden cigarette, you are at no risk. Saliva will not transmit the virus.

Question 2

can i get aids from sharing a same cigarette or straw or cup with an infected person?

Accepted Answer

HIV: This virus is only transmissible by intimate contact, either sexually, sharing needles, blood or tissue transfer, infants breast feeding from an infected mother, fetus infected in utero.  Cannot be transmitted casually or by fomites (inanimate objects).

Question 3

can you get aids from sharing a bottled drink with someone?

Accepted Answer

HIV: Hiv infection is not easy to transmit and requires intimate contact, usually through sex or sharing of blood or tissues from an infected patient.  It is not transmittee through inanimate objects by sharing drinks.

Question 4

how exactly do you get aids from sharing contaminated needles?

Accepted Answer

HIV and Needle share: There are two ways here.  You can get infected with the virus circulating in the blood of the infected user or you can get infected by your white blood cells engulfing and destroying the infected users blood cells that carry the virus or the dna to take over your cell's brain.

Actively sharing needles for drug use is a very common way to get hepatitis b and c and hiv.

Please know the facts!

Question 5

can you get aids from sharing a bottle of liquid bandaid in the same house?

Accepted Answer

No: Fortunately, the aids virus, hiv, does not survive long outside the body, it cannot survive on a dry surface, like the top of a liquid bandaid bottle, and the liquid in liquid bandaid contains alcohol, which has been shown to inactivate the HIV virus. So even if infected blood were to come in contact with the bottle, it wouldn't survive long enough to infect the next person to use it.

Question 6

can i get aids from sharing asame whistle with an hiv infected person?

Accepted Answer

No: This kind of casual sharing hasn't been shown to spread the disease epidemiologically. The virus is wimpy. Drying kills the virus, saliva interferes with transmission, the load of virus and the availability of infected cells is low, and there's little possibility of anything entering your bloodstream. Life's scary enough without manufactured fears like this one.

Question 7

can you get aids from sharing an acne cream with somebody?

Accepted Answer

No: Hiv is fragile and is generally transmitted with a live human cell which the acne creme will probably kill in any case.  Despite the "theoretical" risks of mosquitoes, toilet flushers, toothbrushes, bars of soap, etc., etc., people who live with hiv-positive folks (even very sick ones) but don't exchange body fluids don't seem to catch the disease.  And sharing's good.  Glad you asked; best wishes.

Question 8

can you get syphilis from sharing a cigarette?

Accepted Answer

Syphilis is caused : By a bacterium called treponema pallidum.  It is not spread by smoking a cigarette someone else has used or using the same eating utensils. Syphilis is spread when broken skin or mucus membranes come in contact with sores that contain the bacteria. Sores can be found in the vagina, anus, rectum ; external genitalia. There can be sores on the lips ; mouth. Infrequently kissing can lead to infection.

Question 9

can you get hepatitis from even touching other people or sharing a cigarette?

Accepted Answer

No: This is not a common means of transmission of hepatitis.  Highly unlikely.

Question 10

can you get gonorrhea from sharing a cigarette?

Accepted Answer

No: If you had unprotected sex with that person you can get it.  Also, if you performed unprotected oral sex on a male partner with it you can get a gonoccal throat infection, but not from sharing a cigarette.

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