Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2005. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.Sir,
I would like to know:
1) the chance of acquiring HIV while bathing in a bath tub with HIV infected person.
2) the chance of acquiring HIV in public beaches when skin abrasion/open wound is there
3) sanitary pad of an infected lady in swimming pool.
Mark H. Katz, M.D.
Regional HIV/AIDS Physician Coordinator
Kaiser Permanente of Southern California
All of the situations you describe are considered to be nil risk for acquiring HIV. It is simply not a casually transmitted virus. You essentially need to have needle-sharing or sexual fluid contact with someone with the virus in order to get it. The situations you describe essentially all involve the possibility of HIV-positive blood causing infection, but this simply has not been known to happen through water--whether it be bathwater or seawater or the ocean.
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