if hiv virus doesnot live outside body then how come hiv trasmit through blades and syringes?

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It's usually transmitted that way right after someone has used it, not like days later. Usually someone uses it and within minutes someone else uses that same needle and syringe and gets HIV that way.

I work in a hospital pharmacy and ever now and then we will get nurses who come down to get medicine because they got a needle stick by a possible HIV+ patient. Usually the nurse is drawing blood and when she/he goes to put the cap on the needle they accidentally stick themselves. Since they just drew the blood it's possible they might have contracted HIV from that tiny stick.

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HIV virus attaches to T-cells in your blood stream. THey're part of your immune system. That's how they spread through blades and syringes. The other stuff too..

First off, HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus, so there is no need to say HIV virus you are just repeating virus twice. Since it is a virus it lives by infecting cells. HIV infects CD4 T-cells and uses them to replicate. So if any infected cells are on a blade or syringe the virus can still survive "outside the body." That is a very interesting question.HIV is a fragile virus that doesn't live long outside the body.I would image that the virus in the warm blood droplets on the tip of a needle would be better protected and I would image that it would mean you would share the needle immediately,which is usually the case when people are sharing drugs.

When a drop of blood or other fluid is removed from the body the cells do not die right away. When people say HIV doesn't live outside the body technically they mean it does not live outside of living cells - The cells don't die right away so that drop of fluid on a blade or in a syringe can pass the virus

It is a blood borne pathogen, air kills it but if it stays in contact with any fluids even a drop of blood it will keep it alive and continue to be infectious

Through bodily fluids. That's how they get on needles and syringes, spreading the HIV virus. It's unsanitary!

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