How long would HIV survive in liquids?

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That is pretty scary.

What if for example you buy cosmetic creams online and aren't sure if they are really new or if they might have been used?
I read reports from customers who buy at online shops which allow you to send back used items that the cosmetics which they got seemed to have been used before.
This is gross but I didn't even think about it also being really dangerous. I mean what if somehow HIV blood or sperm got into the stuff and then another person applies it to her
face? If the virus can survive in the liquid then this would be very dangerous.

The more I think about it the more scary it gets.

When very unlikely things that have probably never happened are scaring you to the point of interfering with your life, it's a problem--not a problem of the things you are thinking about, but a problem of anxiety. Anxiety is meant to stop you doing things that are really dangerous, like walking along the extreme edges of cliffs. It is not meant to keep you from things that have small risks, because then you couldn't do anything. Your anxiety seems to be over-active, and I think it needs more treatment.

But I have seen docus on TV about serial killers for example who open coke bottles, put poison in, professionally reseal them and then wait for people to die.
This is scary stuff. If I for example buy food or skin care products and then worry that they might have been opened before then I become worried.
And this is also not totally unlikely. There are online stores which have return policies where you can even return used products and I read complaints from people
on forums who for example said they ordered cosmetics and it was used and not sealed anymore! Because of this I'm not worried when I buy stuff from the same store.
The advantage is that you can return stuff if you dont like it. But the disadvantage is that now I worry and think what if I dont get new and unused stuff? For example simply
putting a small sticker on the bottle doesn't really prove that it doesn't been opened. They could as well simply put fresh stickers on used products and then sell them again.
Or they could as well collect used cosmetics and then use them to fill up new bottles and jars which they then sell as totally new ones.
I wouldn't really use skin care products which other people tried before. To me this seems risky. This is almost the same as eating food which you find on the street.

Although food contamination has occurred, it's very rare, and that one sounds like an urban legend.

No it's true. I was a docu about it. There was a case where a man poisoned coke and another case was about a woman putting algae killing chemicals and pain killers to kill her
husband.

The first case might have been George Trepal, see also here. Note that he was a neighbour, and the poisoned Coke was evidently poisoned after it was bought.

Not sure of the other one. Melanie Glass? Or Stella Nickell? Melanie Glass poisoned her husband's drink with pool chemicals and plant food but it seems this was at the preparation stage. Stella Nickell contaminated painkiller capsules that her husband took, and put some contaminated jars back on pharmacy shelves to make it look like someone else was doing it. She used cyanide, but the cyanide was itself accidentally contaminated with algaecide.

Thanks all for this information.

Yes that was the stuff which I saw in the docu.

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@girlwithherpes said:

Expert of an [*(site not allowed--ready too)*says viruses alive inside cells and must have the nutrients of a cell to remain alive. Outside a body, the virus is fragile and dies within minutes if it is allowed to dry up. HIV can survive longer in environments where blood or semen is allowed to remain moist (inside a syringe for example). However, to contract HIV, the fluid needs to enter inside your body and it is very unlikely that this happened by the way you mentioned.