can you get HIV from using a 1 dollar bill to snort cocaine?


Question:
A girlfriend of mine was about to do a line and I pulled a 1 dollar bill and she refused to use it saying you can get HIV because the bill is circulated so much. She used a cut straw. Is this possible? Please no anti coke statements I know its wrong but to each his own. Thank you

Answers:
No she can't, the virus cannot live long outside of the body. It is better to use a cut straw over using a dollar bill just because of the germs that's on money and people put their money in nasty places like their sock or in their bra.
Cold germs however can live outside the body for quite a while and the easiest way to get sick if from cold germs getting into your nose or through your eyes. With all the stuff coke is cut with (like baby laxatives) and already getting put into your nose it probably wouldn't matter but it would be safer to use a clean cut straw.
If you want to give her a treat.. give her the straw that is in flavored cigar wrappers that are used for blunts.

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I think it would be highly unlikely. Just be safe and use a straw. Money is so dirty. They put it in strippers g-strings and other places. When in doubt, don't.

Yes you can have HIV by using a dollars bill for cocaine if you use someone else bill. Some time there is some blood that gos on the bill ans it is by that blood that you can have HIV. Use only your bill and NEVER share the bill with anyone. That's the safer way.
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I am a nurse working with HIV + person.

I think that she should be more worried about her cocaine addiction than contracting HIV from a dollar bill. It is 100% impossible to get HIV from a dollar bill. She must have been really fucked up or paranoia from drug use has set in. I think that she also should be more worried about ODing on this drug. What an idiot..

AIDS cannot survive outside of the human body it must have a host Air kills it. Why don't you refer her to a rehab and tell her not to worry about contracing HIV. But she could get HIV from being a drug user and getting involved with risky behavior such as unprotected sex. Since addicts are known for doing that

no thats not ture beacuse hiv needs a human body

Absolutely Not! And you should dump her for being stupid

If someone passed the dollar or straw to her immediately after snorting, and they had HIV, and their nostrils were bleeding, then there is a chance.

That's a lot of "if's" though.

HIV does not live on money. It dies within seconds of hitting the air. HIV is transmitted from blood, semen, vaginal fluids and breastmilk - not fingers, dirt or cash.

the HIV virus does not live for extended lengths of time on surfaces outside of the body, you could not catch it from a dollar bill, not unless someone with HIV had just bled on it and you managed to get the blood into an open sore inside of your nose or anywhere else on your body. HIV is a bloodborne pathogen, it is transferred blood to blood, if you get infected blood on healthy intact skin you will not get HIV.

No, there is no POSSIBILITY TO GET HIV FROM A DOLLAR, no matter for what u used it. I can clean my *** with a dollar, and the worse thing i can get is a dollar in my a$$ and maybe a little infection. Thats all



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