HIV and toilet seats?

Question: I have heard that it is impossible to get HIV from shared toilet seats---but what if a woman with HIV/AIDS on her period used the toilet, got a little blood on the seat and another woman with a cut on her leg (or whereever she touched the seat) sat down to use it and made contact with the blood? I know it would be extremely unlikely for this to happen---but it is possible to contract HIV this way in these circumstances?

I'm not worried about it---I've just always wondered. :-)

Answers:
It would be so unlikely so as to become impossible. the HIV can't survive in a lil dried up substance on a toilet seat or elsewhere. A person would need to sit immediately (and accurately) on the freshly wettened spot, while the virus is still viable and infectious. then, maybe.

Other Answers:
yes it is if its an open sore and the blood gets in or any type of cells from her body they can get infected i know my moms a doc

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Um.. No.. The HIV virus is so fragile that it wouldn't survive on a toilet seat.

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NO the HIV virus isnt strong enough to survive outside the body

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You can't get HIV from toilet seats. HIV cannot live outside the body.

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no it is not true. the only std you can get from a toilet seat would be, crabs. gohnnerea, and chlamydia. witch are all bacterial stds. hiv is a virus and it doesnt live once its released to air.

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