How long is HIV virus lives on the blood?where in the blood is at the tip of the cutter?

Question:

i work O.T last Saturday and one of my co- worker cut his hand with a cutter. He kept the cutter with a blood on it at the plastic and put it inside the cabinet. Monday morning I work I borrow his cutter I accidentally cut my self would the HIV virus still there? is it still alive? coz the HIv virus was kept 40 hrs in the plastic and inside the cabinet. One more thing our factory building temperature is hot we often use fan to cool us down when we working.

Answers:
Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well in the environment, making the possibility of environmental transmission remote. HIV is found in varying concentrations or amounts in blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, saliva, and tears. (See below, Saliva, Tears, and Sweat.) In order to obtain data on the survival of HIV, laboratory studies have required the use of artificially high concentrations of laboratory-grown virus. Although these unnatural concentrations of HIV can be kept alive under precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have showned that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the number of infectious viruses by 90 to 99 percent within several hours. Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher than those actually found in blood or other specimens, drying of HIV- infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental transmission to that which has been observed--essentially zero.

Incorrect interpretation of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have alarmed people unnecessarily. Results from laboratory studies should not be used to determine specific personal risk of infection because 1) the amount of virus studied is not found in human specimens or anyplace else in nature, and 2) no one has been identified with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface; Additionally, since HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.

HIV is sensitive to fluctuations in temperature and the presence of oxygen. One place that HIV has been know to survive in is drug injection syringes since these are airtight and often contain blood from the injector.

you are probably fine, but you should get tested to ease your mind

i think it can stay there forever unless it was sanitized but if i was u don't breed

no it doesn't survive well outside the body, especially dried blood, if the blood is dead, HIV is dead, you have nothing to worry about, and it's not a chia pet either, you can't just add water to bring it back to life, you're fine =) and i highly doubt your co worker has HIV anyway.

How long is HIV virus lives on the blood?where in the blood is at the tip of the cutter?

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