Aids question?

ok well i got a cut on my finger on Sunday about one inch long and today it touched i piece of paper that someone with aids touched, and he was bleeding and got blood on it it, a few hours later i touched the paper and it hit my finger with my cut is this bad?

o yeah i touched the paper like five hours after him.

well on you are okay if the blood on the paper was dry. No risk there. The air is an ememy to HIV and once it hits air it is dramatically weaken and to correct the 1 st comment HIV does not die within a minute scientist dont actually know how long HIV virus lives outside the body. Survival of HIV in the Environment

July 29, 1999

Concerning the survival of HIV in the environment, two facts are:
HIV does not survive well outside the body.

HIV has to be grown in large amounts to be studied in laboratories.
Although HIV has been kept alive under certain laboratory conditions, medical authorities agree that the virus does not survive well in the environment. To put things into perspective, 1 milliliter (mL) of blood from a hepatitis B-infected person may contain more than 100 million infectious viral particles. In a dried state, hepatitis B virus, or HBV, may remain viable on surfaces for up to 1 week, and possibly longer. In contrast to the very high concentrations of HBV, the concentrations of HIV in the blood of infected persons are much lower. Estimates of the number of infectious viral particles range from a few hundred to approximately 10,000 per mL.

CDC laboratory studies have shown that drying HIV reduces the viral amounts by 90 to 99 percent within several hours. The concentrations of HIV used in some laboratory studies have produced results that have been used to alarm people unnecessarily. The results are not meaningful because:

the concentrations of HIV used were many times greater than that found in patient specimens;

the amounts of virus studied are not found in nature; and

no one has been infected with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface.
Neither HBV nor HIV are able to reproduce outside the human body, unlike bacteria or fungi which do so under suitable conditions. In laboratory studies of HIV and HBV, it was biologically necessary for these viruses to infect specific human or primate cells to complete their life cycles and thereby reproduce themselves.

If you have questions about HIV infection and AIDS, please call the CDC National AIDS Hotline at our toll free number, 1-800-CDC-INFO. If you wish to write to someone regarding this subject, please address your comments to us at:

CDC National Prevention Information Network
P.O. Box 6003, Rockville
Maryland, 20849-6003

Or send an e-mail message to hivmail@cdc.gov.





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This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

no. you dont have it. once exposed to air the aids virus dies within a minute. so no you did not get HIV.

There is nothing to worry about. HIV dies when it hits the air, an after 5 hours the blood would be dried and there is no way the HIV could still be alive. So not it's not bad and you are not at risk at all.