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HIV on Surface
Hi, I work at a fitness club. Yesterday a customer jammed his finger between some weights and started to bleed, causing drops of blood on the floor as well at the counter top. I took a paper towel, sprayed windex on it, and whip the drop of blood. Whiping the drop of blood with the paper towel that had windex on it, seeped through the paper towel touching my bear hand. Is their anyway of contracting HIV this way
HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions; therefore, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.
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