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Can the hiv virus live and can cause infection on an intact skin or it dies like on any object or surface?
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But alive or dead, contact of HIV with intact skin does not result in HIV infection. How long the virus survives doesn't matter: nobody in the world has ever caught it from an contaminated environment. In general, it probably is inactive and unable to cause infection by the time it dries, usually a few minutes.
Answered 9/16/2023
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