Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!IPWP400%INDYCMS.BITNET@oac.ucla.edu From: IPWP400%INDYCMS.BITNET@oac.ucla.edu (Phil Paxton) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: Re: (2340) Transmission via oral sex Message-ID: <37793@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 6 Aug 90 17:19:41 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Lines: 4 Approved: ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org (David Dodell) Note: Copyright 1990 by Daniel R. Greening. Permission granted for Note: non-commercial reproduction. Archive-number: 2341 I do not remember where I have read it (it was reputable, however), but the cases involving transmission via oral sex have been when sores or lesions existed in the mouth or passageway of the recipient allowing introduction of the fluids into the bloodstream.