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Can sharing chewed chewing gum spread hiv?
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Pro baby not: I have never seen this mode of transmission listed in the literature. Saliva tends to deactivate the virus. That said, if your gums are infected/bleeding, who knows. You may be the first.
Answered 5/31/2019
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