• Question: Can you catch aids through a cheeky snog?

    Asked by NotSally to Ceri, Marikka, Matt, Rob, Sally on 18 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Sally Cutler

      Sally Cutler answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Highly unlikely unless a huge amount of saliva was transferred, so not quite a “cheeky snog”.

    • Photo: Ceri Dare

      Ceri Dare answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      No.

    • Photo: Marikka Beecroft

      Marikka Beecroft answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      No. AIDS is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and can be caused by many things, HIV is one of them. You can’t just get it from kissing someone it just wouldn’t happen.

    • Photo: Robert Hampson

      Robert Hampson answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      AIDS is caused by HIV. If you want to try and catch HIV from an infected person by only kissing, both of you would have to have really bad gum disease. The only recorded case of HIV infection by kissing was because both parties had very badly bleeding gums.

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