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What Are The Modes Of Transmission For HIV?
Hi, Can you get HIV after smoking a tobacco with someone who puts their saliva on the paper before rolling it, and then I have a large open cut on my lip. Is it possible that if they were bleeding that it could have gotten on the tobacco or that their saliva, or blood on the tobacco could have gotten in my cut and gotten me infected?
Mon, 11 Aug 2014
Hello, Thnx for your contact. If I am your treating Doctor, I would like to add you that our human saliva has some of the inhibitor substances like fibronectin which inhibits the viral replication in the saliva. So theoretically there is a nil chance of HIV infection. But if his frank fresh blood is there on the cigarette and your cut in the lip had contacted it you have chances of acquiring the infection. If you have to ask me some thing you can contact me Thankyou. Dr. Arun Tank
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