AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The virus is not passed on from a toilet seat, doorknobs, dishes, drinking glasses, food, or pets. HIV is passed from one person to another through body fluids. These are blood, semen, and vaginal fluids.

Detailed explanation-2: -Saliva, sweat, tears, urine, or feces HIV cannot be spread by sharing drinking glasses or by casual kissing. The risk of spreading the virus through “deep” kissing in which large amounts of saliva are exchanged is extremely low. Only one unproven case has ever been reported.

Detailed explanation-3: -HIV is not spread by: Air or water.

Detailed explanation-4: -By mosquitoes, ticks, or other insects. Through saliva, tears, or sweat. By hugging, shaking hands, sharing toilets, sharing dishes, or closed-mouth or “social” kissing with someone who has HIV. Through other sexual activities that don’t involve the exchange of body fluids (for example, touching).

Detailed explanation-5: -Absolutely not. There is no risk whatsoever in using a glass, a cup, a plate, a spoon or any other everyday household object that a person living with HIV has used. For HIV to be transmitted, the virus has to be present in a body fluid which then enters another person’s bloodstream.