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A member asked:
When lab studies where done on hiv, how did they find out that skin was a protective barrier against hiv, or is it just a myth?
4 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
No myth here: There are no cells in skin that have receptors that HIV needs to infect the cell. Skin, in general, is a barrier to most contagious diseases. This simple fact is so basic and so well known that it is getting increasingly worrisome that you cannot get past this. People do not get HIV through skin. Simple. True. Scientifically and clinically proven.
Answered 6/10/2014
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Innate immunity: Your skin barrier, providing it is healthy, is an innate immunity that our body possesses to protect against foreign invaders. It is commonly referred to as the skin barrier. But if this barrier is unhealthy- split, bleeding, cracking, flaking, red, draining- it is no longer effective against foreign invaders.
Answered 12/10/2016
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Not a Myth: It is not a myth.Hiv virus can not infect someone if the skin is intact.But if there is an open wound it can enter blood and thereby infect the person.This has been learnt by experience with infected blood on intact skin and skin with open wound.
Answered 3/3/2014
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