...In developing countries, some mothers pre-chew food for babies. These women may lack access to packaged baby food or may not have a way to blend baby food...
The researchers said HIV transmission appears to have occurred when the children ingested pre-chewed food that contained blood from the bleeding gums of HIV-infected women, and this entered the children's bloodstreams through a cut, sore or inflammation of the mouth or digestive tract...
This is RIDICULOUSLY SCARY because it begs the question: What if a guy with gingivitis makes out with a girl prone to canker sores?
Does this mean what many of us have feared all along -- that you can, in fact, contract HIV by French kissing?
Have any of you read more about this? Can you chime in here -- freak me out further or assuage my fears? What do you think about all this?
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