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Is there any risk of hiv infection if a child is licking something (object or surface) and i dont know if it was anything on it before like blood spot or body fluid or anything?

Q: is there any risk of hiv infection if a child is licking something (object or surface) and i dont know if it was anything on it before like blood spot or body fluid or anything?

: This is no risk at all. HIV is never transmitted by contact with a contaminated environment. The virus does not survive once outside a living person. Sex and blood sharing (like with drug injection equipment) are the only ways the virus can be caught.

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Dr. Hunter Handsfield answered

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This is no risk at all. HIV is never transmitted by contact with a contaminated environment. The virus does not survive once outside a living person. Sex and blood sharing (like with drug injection equipment) are the only ways the virus can be caught.

Answered 9/24/2023

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A member asked:

Is there any risk of hiv infection if a child is licking something (object or surface) and i dont know if it was anything on it before like blood spot or body fluid or anything?

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