The HIV virus?

How long does the HIV virus survive outside of the body? As in.... if someone is exposed to blood infected with the virus but that has been outside of the body for some time, can they still be infected?

I wasn't exposed, I'm just curious.

Nope. Even in a controlled lab they had problems:

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa35...

I would say yes. Best thing would be to go and have yourself checked "just in case". I hope I am wrong.

It won't last more than 12 hours..

A doctor by the name of Richard Schmidt started injecting his former lover, Janice Trahan, with what she thought were vitamin supplements. One day, instead of vitamin supplements, Dr. Schmidt drew blood from a man with full blown aids and injected Janice with that.. The prosecution needed to prove that the blood was drawn from the Aids patient within 12 hours from the time Janice was given the shot.

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