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Does hiv survive in blood if in tap water within the toilet bowl? does tap water immediately kill the virus?

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Probably minutes: HIV virus does not thrive that well when outside of the body and thus I don't expect it to survive at most a few minutes when in toilet water Your risk in getting HIV from unprotected sex is way way higher.

Answered 1/11/2018

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A member asked:

Does hiv survive in blood if in tap water within the toilet bowl? does tap water immediately kill the virus?

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Dr. John Chiu answered

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