Can you get HIV from a human bite?

A few cases of HIV transmission have been attributed to biting . In one case a five-year-old child infected with HIV by transfusion bit his eight-year-old brother. Infection was not detected until his death from AIDS three and a half years later. His brother was then discovered to be HIV-positive. read more

The risk of HIV-1 infection following human bite although epidemiologically insignificant, but it is biologically possible [1,2]. Animal studies with rhesus macaques shows the infants are more susceptible to oral infections . read more