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Originally posted by Lemons I dont think you can get aids from getting bit. Or can you? I dont know, I wasn't listening durring the whole "HIV/AIDS" part of sex ed. |
I thought you could. Umm I dont know. Its just scary. I have looked it up and ...
The person who is doing the biting is at more risk for infection than the person being bitten. The person doing the biting may come into contact with infected blood, which is highly infectious, as a result of the activity. The person who is being bitten is likely to come into contact with saliva, which is not known to transmit HIV. So the risk of transmission through being bitten is theoretical only, and highly unlikely.
There is at lest one documented case of HIV transmission occuring through an uninfected person being bitten by an HIV infected person. It was clear that the person doing the biting had their own blood in their mouth. Blood is known to transmit HIV; saliva is not. This case could actually be considered blood-to-blood transmission and not transmission through the biting alone.
lol I just had to find out.