Can I get human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from a toilet seat, water fountain, or drinking glasses?
ANSWER
You can’t get HIV from toilet seats or water foundations. HIV is spread through specific body fluids: blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum), vaginal and rectal fluid, and breast milk.
Those types of fluids are unlikely to be on public surfaces. And if there were, the virus would probably would be dead since it can’t live long outside a body. And it would still have to get through your skin or into you somehow.
For the same reasons, you can’t get HIV from sharing dishes, glasses, and eating utensils. Remember, HIV isn't in saliva, and it dies quickly once it's outside the body.
From: How Do You Catch HIV? WebMD Medical Reference
Reviewed by Jonathan E. Kaplan on August 23, 2019
SOURCES:
AIDS.gov: "How Do You Get HIV or AIDS?"
CDC: "HIV Transmission."
The Foundation for AIDS Research: "Basic Facts About HIV/AIDS."
SOURCES:
AIDS.gov: "How Do You Get HIV or AIDS?"
CDC: "HIV Transmission."
The Foundation for AIDS Research: "Basic Facts About HIV/AIDS."
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