Is HIV infection possible from coming in contact with an infected persons wound, even if there is no blood?

Suppose an HIV infected person has a cut or sore of some kind that is not all healed up, but is no longer bleeding. Could someone else get infected if they had a wound that touched the + person? Or is actual blood flow required to pass the virus?

i am in school to be a dental assistant and i have to take a class for infection control and safety. from what i know, it doesn't take a whole lot of blood to spread the infection. it can live for 7 days in a little tiny drop. so its a good idea to check and make sure. if you have a scab...its got your infected blood cells. therefore...any contact could lead to infection.

it is possible if you have sex .. so yeah and blood

you must wash that spot but if it doesn't enter your body in any way you should be just fine ;)

I'm pretty sure the chances are negligable in that instance - it requires blood to blood contact or some other intimate exchange of fluids, such as sex.

As far as I know, the HIV Virus dwells in one's blood and reproductive fluids.

So it shouldn't be possible to get it without blood contact, or sexual intercourse of course.

Only through sex, blood or if you drink 8 gallons of spit!

No. Bodily fluid must come into contact with soft tissues for transmission to occur. I wouldn't go licking the scar or anything but it's not a problem.

actual blood flow requires to immediately pass the virus to others, but for other fluids, it requires large amount of intake before you get infected.

From past info.........any body fluid may increase any risk of infection. That is from a doctor that i have known for a while. Salava, mucus, sweat and of course BLOOD.

Whilst HIV may live for a short while outside of the body, HIV transmission has not been reported as a result of contact with spillages or small traces of blood, semen or other bodily fluids. This is partly because HIV dies quite quickly once exposed to the air, and also because spilled fluids would have to get into a person's bloodstream to infect them.

Scientists agree that HIV does not survive well in the environment, making the chance of environmental transmission remote. To obtain data on the survival of HIV, laboratory studies usually use artificially high concentrations of laboratory-grown virus. Although these concentrations of HIV can be kept alive for days or even weeks under controlled conditions, studies have shown that drying of these high concentrations of HIV reduces the amount of infectious virus by 90 to 99 percent within a few hours.

Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher than those actually found in blood or other specimens, the real risk of HIV infection from dried bodily fluids is probably close to zero. Incorrect interpretation of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have unnecessarily alarmed some people.

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"laboratory studies usually use artificially high concentrations of laboratory-grown virus."