Post #211991 by mbonga on Wed, Feb 1, 2006 11:54 AM

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.

I heard HIV was carried by "bodily fluids", which I interpreted to include saliva. What you say makes sense, though. Blame the wording of the news I read/heard. As for the timing, that class was in the early 1980s.