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Risk of hiv by mouth?

Hey I’m just curious can you get hiv by mouth.In any circumstances such as food or kiss or anything? I was at the restaurant bathroom and I washed my mouth and I got a splash back straight in to my mouth idk if water that running touched that part of the sink so I was disgusting any risk of any kind better than random google search thanks people
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Oops, I meant to say  (someone's fluids, skin germs, blood, etc. which is not a risk for hiv.)
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (her fluids, skin, her anus, blood, boobs etc. which is not a risk for hiv.) No worries, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
HIV is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the worst that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event.
You should realize how many billion people have been splashed or kissed but no grandmothers or children ever got hiv that way because it is not possible.
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