Question 1

is soap kill hiv aids or how long it takes to die hiv aids in dettol antiseptic it inactive the virus but how long it take to kill the virus in it ?

Accepted Answer

Why do you ask?: HIV outside the body is extremely fragile. It's transmitted only by exchange of fresh body fluids. Antiseptics are basically superfluous in preventing AIDS transmission. Viruses aren't even really alive, and "inactivated" is as good as gone.

Question 2

how large is the hiv virus?

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Very small: A single HIV virus particle has been measured at around 0.1 micros (0.0001 mm).

Question 3

how long does a hiv virus lives?

Accepted Answer

A few hours: Although HIV can survive outside the body for a few hours in certain bodily fluids, it cannot function when dry. The virus cannot infect some one unless it enters the body.

Question 4

how long can hiv virus live in the air?

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HIV: Cdc laboratory studies have shown that drying HIV reduces the viral amounts by 90 to 99 percent within several hours. There have been no cases of HIV that were transmitted from contaminated surfaces.

Question 5

how long hiv virus survive on a toilet tap?

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: Only very briefly, but it doesn't matter. Nobody has ever been infected by contacting a contaminated object in a toilet or anywhere else.

Question 6

for how long can the hiv virus live in open ?

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No worries re: HIV: HIV -the virus that causes AIDS is acquired from sexual activity or injection drug use. You cannot get HIV infection from blood outside the body -since once it leaves the body it dies right away. This is obviously a good thing. For some viruses though, like Hepatitis B -they CAN survive outside the body. In India there's some Hep B there. There is a Hep B vaccine you can get. Hope you can be safe.

Question 7

how long does hiv virus live outside body

virus?

Accepted Answer

Varies a lot: A great source of info is at https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/laboratory-biosafety-biosecurity/pathogen-safety-data-sheets-risk-assessment/human-immunodeficiency-virus.html, which says that survival is more than one week if HIV in blood serum is just left to dry on a glass slide. Of course, we commoners don't have glass slides at home.

Question 8

what increases my chance of catching the hiv virus?

Accepted Answer

CDC HIV Risk Factors: In general, behaviors that increase risk for HIV include:
-Having sex with an infected partner+repetitively
-Engaging in injection drug use, prostitution, 
-STDs
-Gay/transgender men who have sex with men- anal sex is extremely dangerous and should be avoided
For a complete explanation of risk factors see:
https://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/prevention/reduce-your-risk/who-is-at-risk-for-hiv/

Question 9

how long does hiv virus live outside a human being?

Accepted Answer

Not long: Viruses are critters which live inside cells and must have nutrients of a cell to remain alive.  Most will die rapidly after leaving the body unless retained in body fluids within cells in those fluids.  This takes varying times to resolve.  As a general rule HIV is not transmittable casually.  It needs direct tissue contact.  Blood, shared needles, sex, organ transplant.

Question 10

help! how does the cold virus differ from hiv virus?

Accepted Answer

Totally different: The common cold which causes upper respiratory tract infections is caused by more than 200 different types of virus.  The HIV virus is part of the family known as human retroviruses.  The differences and similarities are far too lengthy to discuss in this type of setting.

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