That's very interesting about a doctor making that comment about tears and sweat so I looked it up. Here's the infamous conversation: > Stephanopoulos: You’re

That's very interesting about a doctor making that comment about tears and sweat so I looked it up. Here's the infamous conversation: > Stephanopoulos: You’re a doctor. Do you think tears and sweat can transmit HIV” > Frist: I don’t know…I can tell you.. > Stephanopoulos: You don’t know? > Frist: I can tell you things like, like..condoms.. > Stephanopoulos: … You believe that tears and sweat might be able to transmit aids? This is different than the impression from claims that he was saying it could happen. He said he didn't know about those in particular. Does the HIV virus ever leach out in tears and sweat? Probably, but not in quantities great enough to be of concern. Is there a minute remote chance one could get it from this under some perfect storm of chance? Probably not, but it's conceivable. It's like the saliva issue. HIV is present in the saliva at extremely small levels thought to be no risk. Six people caught it from dentist David J. Acer, something that was thought, and claimed, to be impossible. As a doctor Frist likely was familiar with cases such as that of Dr. Acer. His statement, the actual statement he made which is "I don't know", is not unreasonable.