{"id":17723,"date":"2021-11-04T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=17723"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:41","slug":"can-hiv-be-transmitted-through-water-and-open-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/17723","title":{"rendered":"Can HIV be transmitted through water into open wounds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for asking the question and letting us post online,<\/p>\n<p>In short, No. HIV can&#8217;t survive in water. Using water you found to pour onto an open wound will not transmit HIV. This <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/hiv-transmission-and-testing\">link<\/a> should answer any further questions about HIV transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a closed bottle with some water and cotton inside. I used this water to clean an open wound. Can I get HIV? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25089,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723\/revisions\/25089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}