{"id":380,"date":"2008-04-04T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T10:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=380"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:50","slug":"risks-from-deep-kissing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/380","title":{"rendered":"Risks from deep kissing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are worrying too much.<\/p>\n<p>If you both had cuts in your mouths and are bleeding then there is a chance that HIV could be transmitted but saliva is pretty good at killing HIV.<\/p>\n<p>In the real world this is a zero risk because it is so unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this sounds like a stupid question but there are a number of websites which state that deep kissing is a &#8216;low risk activity&#8217; for HIV transmission.  Avert also states there has been a recorded case of transmission through kissing in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>I always believed it was a no risk!  I recently kissed somone and afterwards found a small pinhead sized cut in my mouth.  How much blood would need to be present in order for there to be any risk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","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\/380","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24678,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/24678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}