If someone were to bleed or put some bodily fluid on a hamburger that contained HIV...would it survive?
I know that the HIV virus doesn't live long outside of the body but does hamburger meat that has been cooked have the conditions that HIV needs to survive?
And with this being asked...does any food have the conditions that HIV needs to survive? Well The HIV virus won't survive on food (unless you eat human Flesh.. I"m SERIOUS IT WILL SURVIVE ON THAT)
Basically you must understand, it survives by replicating, only on HUMAN t-cells. So meats such as hamburgers won't be infected with HIV unless an HIV infected person infects the hamburger with his/her own blood, that Also means Semen(thats nasty), saliva (if it has blood, i.e. person has a cut or something in his mouth/ nasal/ throat, that is causing him/her to bleed inside his mouth and mixing with saliva), other body fluids, (not sweat).
Hamburger is made from Beef, so its good, The HIV virus can't live on/in any other blood, such as in cows or even monkeys. IT only lives in Human blood wheres the Human T-cells are. Heat does kill either the HIV virus, and/or the Blood in which the HIV needs to thrive on. Heat (i.e. cooking) denatures the genetic proteins that the HIV virus and t-cells have to survive and reproduce. Thus if you aren't sure, just cook it, or heat it up. To what degree of heat, I don't know.. between raw and Burnt (haha). Hope that kind of answers your question.
So basically, it really don't survive on hamburgers. Unless infected by HIV person, (i.e. the guy that is making the hamburger is HIV positive and he gets a cut and bleeds into your ALREADY cooked hamburger) If its frozen, the guy cooks it and it should be HIV free, due the the genetic material being denatured. However some1 bleeding into you burger is highly-unlikely. An HIV positive person who is bleeding or has a open sore in his/her mouth spitting in your burger is different and more likely though.
Solution if infected: If you think u are contaminated, you should immediately get an HIV test, and if you are infected within a couple of hours, you may go to the nearest Hospital (not clinc) and if you may be subjected to a HIV test, as well as different Anti-Immune system inhibitors that will prevent the HIV virus from infecting you t-cells by doing something to your t-cells (i forgot what.. hehe).
it has a 70% chance of working/ i.e. sucessfully preventing you from getting HIV infecting you T-cells. This method is used by doctors whom get infected from their HIV patients, whether by surgery, or just an accidental cut. You however must get this, RIGHT after you get infected. the longer you wait i.e. 6 hours or more, its highly likely that the HIV have already infected your T-cells, and start reproducing, thus
you have HIV.
There are current anti-reverse transcriptase inhibitors that try to stop HIV from infecting or attaching to your t-cells. however is hard to produce a cure due to the often mutations that HIV undergoes. there are medications to slow down the process (i.e. drug cocktails), which is the standard prescription for HIV patients.
But about Mad Cow disease... thats a WHOLE different story. Any other questions you may have? Good question.
I don't actually know the answer but I'm goig nto loiter here until someone finally answers it.
it makes me a bit frightemed to eat a hamburger!! sure it probably can, not that I'd want to investigate that closely....cook the hell out of it From the CDC
Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well outside the body, 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. 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 for days or even weeks under precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have shown that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the amount of infectious virus 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 interpretations of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have in some instances caused unnecessary alarm.
Results from laboratory studies should not be used to assess specific personal risk of infection because (1) the amount of virus studied is not found in human specimens or elsewhere in nature, and (2) no one has been identified as infected with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface. Additionally, 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; therefore, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.
So to answer your Question, you would have to know the concentration levels. I doubt it will last, and why would someone do that to another person.....thats a better question. |
