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Emma Peel
Location: Ahowah Gender: Female Total Likes: 4 likes
Ghosting you like you've never been ghosted before.
| | | Re: Heroin Needles < Reply # 19 on 12/30/2004 4:08 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by stinger Basically they say that the HIV virus cannot live outside of a host for more than a few seconds. |
Yep. Oxygen immediately kills the HIV virus. ...in hypodermic needles, the virus can sometimes survive because the syringe is airtight and there is usually blood in the needle. However, it didn't say how long the virus could survive in the needle, and from what I've learned in the past, it wouldn't survive very long. Basically, you'd have to be in contact with the needle almost immediately after the druggie used it. That would explain why so many people got AIDS during the 70's and 80's: they would share their drug needles, and the time between uses was short enough for the virus to survive.
| It is more difficult for someone to catch an HIV infection by using syringes than we are led to believe. There needs to be a 100% airtight transmission. This means that from the time subject A injects heroin or whatever into their body, they need to immediately retract the little pushy-in thingy and STOP pulling while it is still in their body. Then, in transmission, they cannot let any air into the end of the needle, or the person receiving it could die of a stroke AND the HIV virus would be killed. Then it has to be injected directly into person B... I don't know how the fuck they do it, really. Seems like something that you'd either have to consciously do or just have happen by chance, if you're loaded... ... When I was younger, I'd see TV shows with kids becoming "blood brothers" by pushing their picked scabs together and melding the blood between. My mom always told me never do that, "You could get diseases." Well... there's like a 1 in a million chance that THIS could lead to HIV, also. You'd need to form an airtight seal around the wound for a minimum of five minutes.... man, if I was 8 and doing that, I would get so damn bored... Anyway. There's part of what I learned in "Contemporary Ideas" last year Em
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