I have a question about hiv/aids

[lazy smoker7]

Anyways I was just wondering about this... How do people who share needels catch hiv? I heard once the aid virus is out of the body for 24 hours it dies and it can only survive inside a body... but when people share needles .. I would think that the hiv or what ever would die after the needle was not used for so long after the last person? Is that true that the aids virus dies once its in the air for so long and out of a body?

[420marijuana420]

that's if you'r shooting up heroin or something and you use it right after the other person. Hepatitis is more common with needles. But IF THERE IS hiv in the needle you're using it's not just like you're getting it on your skin or even getting pricked with the needle, you're injecting it right into your veins.

[rebgirl420]

yup ^^^he knows whats up

[lazy smoker7]

well the main question, I was asking.. just because I dont know if I am correct or not ... does the aids virus die after its out of the body for 24 hours or am I wrong about that? and thanks 420mj420 for ya answer... I just looking for like a yes or no answer question because sorry I just get scared over little shit.. like today I picked up a piece of tissue to throw it away and I notticed it had soem dried blood on it and later on I was thinking... I have a few paper cuts on my hand etc... and I was scared if the dried blood some how touching my paper cut in result getting hiv lol... I know I know I sound like a hypocondirac which is true lol....

[420marijuana420]

well the main question, I was asking.. just because I dont know if I am correct or not ... does the aids virus die after its out of the body for 24 hours or am I wrong about that?


I think it's less than that actually, it's pretty weak without a host.

signing off for the night. l8r

[rebgirl420]

yeah it dies out of the body quickley, here [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS

[lazy smoker7]

thanks alot you 2.... anyways rebgirl this may sound off topic... but I know you like to watch agua teen also and considering I havent watched anything past season 2 maybe 3 I dont remeber.... are there alot new episodes out now lol?

[rebgirl420]

yes sir : )

[GotWake88]

It does die quickly without a host, but there are other things besides HIV. I don't encourage hard drug use, but will not try to stop others or chastize others for using them. But why make the risk of sharing a needle?

[lazy smoker7]

lol I never said I used shared needles man... the only chemical I use in my body for mind altering effects is cannabis... I was just wondering why needle sharing ppl got aids...

[birdgirl73]

Needle-sharing is another way of exchanging bodily fluids, LazySmoker, albeit in smaller amounts than through sexual contact. A needle goes into an HIV-positive person's arm, picking up some of the virus from that first person's blood or plasma or whatever it comes in contact with beneath the skin. Then the virus lives long enough to be transferable when that needle is put into another person's arm, innoculating person #2 with the virus. Everyone's right that the virus doesn't live long outside a human host, but often needle-sharing is done in a fairly fast succession, with one person using the needle, then another, and then another. So in those cases where HIV gets transmitted, the needles haven't been sitting idle for a period of hours.

[420marijuana420]

I think the chances of getting HIV from the tissue are pretty small, assuming the blood on the tissue was HIV positive: It was dried blood so it had probably been laying there for a while and there's a good chance that the HIV died. Also the paper cut had to be open, like you had to have just gotten a paper cut.