HIV & Semen?

Does anyone know how long it takes semen that is HIV positive to dry to the point that it is no longer able to transmit/inflect? Will standard dry cleaning of an article of clothing clean the item enough so no more HIV positive semen is present and able to infect anyone?

Say you went to a move and sat in a seat in the theater that had semen on it and that semen was HIV positive. If you were wearing a suit, would simply dry-cleaning it be enough, or do you recommend throwing the suit out?

Thanks

HIV is a fragile virus that pretty much dies once the medium it's in dries up. Hepatitis b and c are the ones that can live for days on an object and be infective... not HIV.

In order for HIV to be transmitted it must be in contact with an open area on the skin. LIke an open sore... or your mucus membranes.. like yours eyes, mouth, nose, and of course iv drug use and sexual contact.

A bit of info for you. Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well in the environment, making the possibility of environmental transmission remote. HIV is found in varying concentrations or amounts in blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, saliva, and tears. (See below, Saliva, Tears, and Sweat.) In order to obtain data on the survival of HIV, laboratory studies have required the use of artificially high concentrations of laboratory-grown virus. Although these unnatural concentrations of HIV can be kept alive under precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have showned that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the number of infectious viruses by 90 to 99 percent within several hours. Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher than those actually found in blood or other specimens, drying of HIV- infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental transmission to that which has been observed--essentially zero.

Incorrect interpretation of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have alarmed people unnecessarily. Results from laboratory studies should not be used to determine specific personal risk of infection because 1) the amount of virus studied is not found in human specimens or anyplace else in nature, and 2) no one has been identified with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface; Additionally, since HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.

By the time you got the suit off, got dressed into something else, and got into your car, more likely than not, the HIV virus would be dead. HIV doesn't handle air exposure well.

If I was you i would throw the suit out because you never know if you can get it!!! EWWWWW!!!!

hiv aids only spread through sexual transmission,blood transfer, or through by pregnancy or by breast feeding.unless there is no contact of any of these this virus will not spread.but if that suit is of no more importance to you and you do not believe me in that case you can throw suit out.

60 seconds in air and it is gone. My best friend has HIV and it has not affected our friendship at all. once it is exposed to air it cannot live. Sex, needles and blood transfusion with a infected person. no need to dry clean its dead now.