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this is an urban myth. AIDS can't live outside the body for even less than 10 seconds.
There was an email sent to my high school staff about this danger, and the entire student population was informed.
When the AIDS speakers came one of the teachers asked them about it and they made her feel very uneducated.
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Sorry to say that you're the uneducated one. HIV can't live for long outside the human body if we're talking about blood on a tissue or something similar. HIV can live inside a needle for up to forty3-eight days under a controlled temperature and it's life expectancy in real life conditions is in the range of two to ten days.
!(btw my keyboard is [censored], sorry for the funny tuping
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Question: How long can the virus live outside the human body?
Answer: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus is fragile. Once the virus is outside the body in a dry form, it dies immediately. Even in a wet state, it does not live long when exposed to heat, detergents, or disinfectants. When stored in blood banks at 4°C, it can live for about 3 weeks (or longer), or till the white cell disintegrates, but in a frozen state it can survive for years.
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