The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the HIV virus may have been transmitted from an HIV-positive man to an HIV-negative woman through "deep kissing." According to the CDC report, the man's bleeding gums may have been how the HIV virus was passed to the woman.
As it turns out, though, the CDC can't really be sure HIV was transmitted from the man to the woman through kissing.
Although the couple claimed they always used a condom and never had anal sex, the claims are unverified. They also claim their oral sex activity did not involve transmission of semen or blood. (I guess that's why the withdrawal method of birth control is 100 percent effective?) And the woman denied having sex with others. (How many would admit to cheating?)
Finally, if HIV was transmissible through kissing (and given the absence of kissing condoms), wouldn't the "AIDS epidemic" be even more widespread?
It's possible (likely?) this report is just part of the hype to keep AIDS alive as a major drain of scarce public health resources (billions of dollars annually!). After all, the same week this report was released came news that AIDS deaths were down about 25 percent.
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