I was meaning if you were to inject someones saliva or something unlikely like that.
If someone had a significant amount of blood in their mouth, you put that spit straight into a syringe and then injected it, then maybe. But in the situation where someone HIV+ has a balloon of dope in their mouth, to transmit it that way they would need to be substantially bleeding in their mouth, get some of that blood on the balloon, some of that blood would have to get into the actual dope, and the virus would have to survive the whole time (HIV does not survive well outside the body, maybe a few hours at most under normal conditions where the sample is allowed to dry; it also doesn't like heat), and then manage to enter the bloodstream of the person using the dope. That is
extremely unlikely to happen. And in the situation described by the OP, impossible: the balloon and hands were disinfected and the dope was heated til vaporization and inhaled.
But the fact it's not transferable through saliva to blood contact has me questioning why the state of Texas charged an HIV positive man with criminal attempt-murder for biting a security guard that was stopping him from stealing a summer sausage.
It's very hard to find reliable details about that case, but he
was convicted of "Aggravated Robbery w/Deadly Weapon". Biting is not a common way of transmitting HIV, and there are numerous reports of bites from infected persons that did not result in transmission. However there was one reported incident that suggested possible blood-to-blood transmission of HIV by a human bite. So biting is considered to carry a very low but possible risk.
There are actually around 10 cases in the US where people with HIV spat at people (usually police officers, often in Texas) and were charged and/or convicted of things like "assault with a deadly weapon" or "criminal exposure to HIV", which is outrageous to HIV organizations. It does sound very unjust to me. Contact with saliva alone has
never been shown to result in transmission of HIV, and there are no documented cases of transmission from an HIV-infected person spitting on another person. The US appears to be the only country that sends HIV-positive individuals to prison for spitting, and this likely happens due to police, judicial and jury ignorance about how HIV is/isn't transmitted, general hysteria surrounding AIDS, and general persecution and judgement of HIV+ people.
I remember reading a few years ago...someone DID contract HIV through kissing someone....I don't remember the exact details.....
The CDC says there are one or 2
extremely rare cases of HIV being supposedly transmitted via deep “French” kissing but in each case, infected blood was exchanged due to bleeding gums or sores in the mouth. They consider there to be a
remote risk from deep, open-mouth kissing if there are sores or bleeding gums and blood is exchanged.
I am not sure how they can even know for certain if someone did indeed contract it solely through kissing aside from relying on the statements provided by the person on their activities.
Studies have found that saliva actually somehow inactivates the vast majority of the HIV virus, even people with actively-virus-shedding HIV/AIDS only have minute to no active virus in their saliva (not enough to transmit to another person). However, if you add a
large enough amount of infected blood, semen or breast milk to saliva, any of those fluids can protect the virus from being killed by the saliva.
