Originally posted by: DVad3r
Originally posted by: mdchesne
Originally posted by: DVad3r
I guess you don't know people at all, and there are skeletons in peoples closets that you would least expect them from. I think I am going to get HIV tested, I find the fact very disturbing that HIV people are allowed to join public gyms. I know I've shared machines and weights with him and doing heavy bench press could cause the bar to dig into your hands, whether or not I could catch HIV from that I don't know.
What a day...after something like that, I am definetely for a law that states HIV people should have their own gyms and not be allowed in public ones.
Wow. Someone is ignorant.
1. you can't get HIV from sweat
2. you can't deny access to a person if it's a public facility
3. you can't condemn them regardless of whether they have HIV or not
4. you may want to get some pamphlets from a school sex ed course
Actually I did take a Sex Ed course in school, blood is #1 for the virus, #2 is semen/vaginal fluids #3 is saliva (very low chances) and #4 is sweat glands (even lower chances, but has been proven to exist). It's not really ignorance if there is a chance of getting infected.
From the CDC's website...
How HIV is Transmitted
HIV is spread by sexual contact with an infected person, by sharing needles and/or syringes (primarily for drug injection) with someone who is infected, or, less commonly (and now very rarely in countries where blood is screened for HIV antibodies), through transfusions of infected blood or blood clotting factors. Babies born to HIV-infected women may become infected before or during birth or through breast-feeding after birth.
In the health care setting, workers have been infected with HIV after being stuck with needles containing HIV-infected blood or, less frequently, after infected blood gets into a worker?s open cut or a mucous membrane (for example, the eyes or inside of the nose). There has been only one instance of patients being infected by a health care worker in the United States; this involved HIV transmission from one infected dentist to six patients. Investigations have been completed involving more than 22,000 patients of 63 HIV-infected physicians, surgeons, and dentists, and no other cases of this type of transmission have been identified in the United States.
Some people fear that HIV might be transmitted in other ways; however, no scientific evidence to support any of these fears has been found. If HIV were being transmitted through other routes (such as through air, water, or insects), the pattern of reported AIDS cases would be much different from what has been observed. For example, if mosquitoes could transmit HIV infection, many more young children and preadolescents would have been diagnosed with AIDS.
All reported cases suggesting new or potentially unknown routes of transmission are thoroughly investigated by state and local health departments with the assistance, guidance, and laboratory support from CDC. No additional routes of transmission have been recorded, despite a national sentinel system designed to detect just such an occurrence.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/transmission.htm
Unless he was cut and bleeding on one of the machines and you used it while you have an open wound or you were having sex or sharing needles with him, I think you're safe.
I didn't realize that it was actually that high.
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