Can HIV be spread through kissing?

Answer 1

There have been no confirmed cases of HIV transmission from kissing. Supervisor's note: This information is stale or speculative--The U.S. CDC reports that there are (rare) cases (see link):

Can HIV be transmitted by kissing?There is a remote risk from deep, open-mouth kissing if there are sores or bleeding gums and blood is exchanged. Therefore, persons living with HIV should avoid this behavior with a non-infected partner.

The New York Times reports the first documented case in 1997 (see link):A woman apparently acquired the AIDS virus from deep kisses with an infected man, Federal health officials said yesterday. They said the case was the first reported transmission of H.I.V., the AIDS virus, through kissing.

Supervisor's note: The following answer is what the typical public school curriculum teaches kids. It is contrary to the "Universal Precautions" that you will find in OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens standard (see link below) because it fails to account for saliva contaminated by blood: No it cannot, I learned about this question last week and know that you cannot get HIV by kissing someone with HIV since saliva is not a bottled liquid in your body neither is tears or sweat. Watch out for cuts though because you are taking a risk if you kiss someone with a cut on their lip.

You also unlikely to get HIV by receiving donated blood because they test the blood now for HIV before it gets donated, but in the 80's you could have gotten HIV by receiving donated blood since back then they didn't know HIV was transmitted through blood therefore they didn't test the blood.

When you have HIV it probably could take 5-10 years before showing any systems of the disease. That's why every year when you are an adult you should take an HIV test. You do that by going to a hospital asking to donate blood, it you have HIV they will call you and inform you, but if you do not have it they won't call you back. So, you would put dozens of people at risk of being infected with HIV because you want to save some money? The HIV screening test is not 100% and your infected blood might pass the screening. Your pint of blood could be turned into blood products and contaminate many people. The only way that they would draw your blood would be after you completed the questionnaire asking you if you had engaged in risky behavior. You would have to have lied on the questionnaire for them to accept your blood.

People that have HIV/AIDS don't die from the sickness they die because the sickness weakens their immune system so a simple cold could defeat them because the body has a weak defense.

Casual Contact like hugging, shaking hands, sharing meal/drink, using the same bathroom could not get you HIV. That doesn't mean you should share a drink with anyone because if they have a cold sore you could get a cold sores for life just because you drank out of their cup/bottle/container. Don't use the same needles as other people even if they are your It's very unlikely but it is possible the virus may be transmitted through open sores in the mouth. No. No. When HIV found in saliva of infected person then why it does not infect to others on kissing with victim It is not likely but if you both happen to have cuts or open sores on your mouth then it's possible. To become infected with HIV, you have bleeding gums or an open cut in your mouth.

An HIV-positive's saliva contains the virus but in too small quantities to infect someone just by kissing. It has to come in contact with your blood through a cut, however small, for you to be infected. Here is more information: * As the previous answers correctly state, the saliva of an HIV-positive person contains so little HIV that it would be almost impossible for transmission to take place .. even if you kissed with tongues. You own saliva also has natural anti-viral properties. Supervisor's note: This assertion is bogus. There is nothing in your saliva that will destroy HIV. No * No, and it doesn't matter how much saliva is involved No. AIDS is only transmittable sexually, or through the exchange of intravenous needles. Supervisor's note: This assertion is also bogus. HIV can be transmitted any time HIV-containing body fluids come in contact with a point of entry. Typically, saliva is not considered to be one of these fluids but, as the previous answer stated the saliva may also contain blood from open sores in the mouth or from bleeding gums. A route of entry would be any mucous membrane or any broken skin. Swapping spit with a HIV-positive individual is risky behavior.

HIV is present in saliva...but at VERY VERY low concentrations. You cannot get HIV from kissing... A person would have to dump gallons and gallons of an HIV infected person's saliva into your mouth for their to even be a chance of contracting the virus. What evidence is there, apart from your assertion, that saliva only contains very low risk of HIV?

Answer 2

no unless both people have a cut in there mouth

HIV can be spread through blood and semen primarily. In rare instances it might be able to spread through kissing, but the person doing the kissing would have to have a bloody mouth at least, even if they were HIV-positive, to be able to spread through kissing. Kissing is ok. Just use common sense and don't kiss someone with a mouth full of sores, ever.

Answer 3

no unless you kiss someone with cuts in there mouth

Answer 4

No, HIV is not spread through kissing. There has only been one report of HIV through kissing and that was related with blood.

Answer 5

It depends. HIV is rarely (if ever) transmitted through kissing; when it does occur it probably relates to open sores in the mouth that allow exposure to blood, not just saliva.

Answer 6

Kissing cannot cause HIV transmission unless there is an open, bleeding sore in an infected party's mouth. HIV is transmitted by blood, through unprotected sex, and through shared needles.

Answer 7

Yes.