Post #211977 by Tiki-bot on Wed, Feb 1, 2006 10:46 AM

On 2006-01-31 20:31, mbonga wrote:
That was before anybody knew about AIDS. How the world has changed.

Jeez, crack open a book or newspaper once in a while! AIDS, or more accurately the HIV virus, has only been around (in human-infecting form) since the late 70s or so. It is also generally recognized that saliva is not a hospitable carrier of the virus. Few viruses, in fact, can be transmitted via saliva since its enzymes tend to break it down before it can spread.