Can HIV Be Caught By Drinking Pasteurized Bottled Apple Juice Made From Frozen Concentrate?

Posted on Sun, 5 Aug 2012

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Question : Can HIV be transmitted by drinking pasteurized bottled XXXXXXX juice made from frozen concentrate? Change the word transmitted to caught.

Answered by Dr. Dr. Chandra Shekhar Sharma (39 minutes later)

Hi,

Welcome to XXXXXXX

No, one can't caught HIV by drinking pasteurized bottled XXXXXXX juice made from frozen concentrate.

HIV can be transmitted only from a person infected with HIV through unprotected sex, transfusion of contaminated blood and by using contaminated syringes and needles etc.

Thanks for posting your query.

Hope you found my response to your query informative and helpful.

If you have further concerns in this regard, I would be happy to discuss those with you as well.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar