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Can hiv or aids be transmitted by shedding skin flakes from a person's psoriasis?

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No: Hiv infection is acquired through unprotected sex, injection drug use, transfusion of hiv-infected blood products, or from mother to child. You cannot get hiv/aids from shedding skin from psoriasis.

Answered 12/10/2013

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