Can you get HIV/AIDS from fishing hooks?
Posted on Mar 24, 2010 under Fishing Hooks | 5 CommentsSerious question here… I was touching some unpackaged jig head hooks at a local sporting good store. I accidentally poked myself with one of those hooks ( people touch all of the time). Is is possible to be infected with HIV/Aids from that?
No. Once HIV is outside the body, exposed to air, it dies within a few minutes.
March 24th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
No. HIV doesn’t live very long outside the body.. so you are okay.
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March 24th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
if there was blood on it, then yes….but i dont think you would touch it if it had blood…there are only three was to get HIV: sex, sharing blood (transfusion) and sharing needles (drugs)….so, if there was no blood on the hook, youre fine….plus, even if there was blood on it, theres less than a 1 percent chance the blood on it carries HIV…so, yes, its totally fine
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March 24th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
only if some else had managed to cut their skin and draw blood on the very same hook who were hiv + within 24 hours of you cutting your finger and so, having blood to blood contact with the live virus.
HIV can only live outside the body for about 24 hours.
I thinbk its so unlikely that you could have contracted hiv from that i reckon its more likely that the wooly mammoth still lives, however, not to worry you but hepatitis C can live out of the body for 3 months but i still think the liklihood of someone with hep C pricking thier finger on that same hook out of how many?! .. is extremely extremely unlikely and you’re far more likely to crash into a fallen tree tmrw and die.
If you are concerned then to put your mind at rest in 3 months time go and get screened- no point in getting screened before then since it takes around 12 weeks for either virus’s to become detectable, unless you are concerned you may have contracted it from something else before.
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March 24th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
No. Once HIV is outside the body, exposed to air, it dies within a few minutes.
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I do HIV education and testing.
March 24th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Quite unlikely. But it’s possible.
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