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Q: HIV with knife cut ?
asked by: Sopisca on July 2nd, 2009
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hi! the other night i went with my friends to a party. In the way a guy asked us if we have cigarrets, and we said no, but he insisted, and we send him away. When we turn he cut me on my back with a little knife. The cut is superficial, but i went to the hospital. The doctor said that the risk i'm infected is minimum because the knife had to had fresh blood (-30 min on air), but i has very stressed and he told me about a treatment with retrovirals, but said that in my case wasn't necessary. can i be infected? do i make the treatment?
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Muthoni
replied on July 5th, 2009
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Hey Sopisca,

HIV dies 30 seconds to a minute after it leaves the body. Also when you got cut, you were bleeding out. Very difficult for anything to get in.

Watch the wound but I doubt you got infected with HIV. If you are very worried, wait three months and get a blood test for HIV. Then wait another three months and get a final test.

thanks for coming here to look for help.

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