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Q: Am I Just Being Neurotic?
asked by: orion on April 16th, 2004
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What are the chances of a person contracting hiv by cutting themsleves on something that someone else may have cut themself on five minutes prior?

I'm probably just being neurotic but am curious
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2ferano
replied on April 16th, 2004
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It can happen. I mean if you can get it from a tiny needle that an infected person used, then I am sure you could get it from your above scenario.
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vmalibu00
replied on June 29th, 2004
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Well it depends how long the blood was on the knife if it was dry blood your safe because dry blood kills the hiv infection needles are different because no air gets up in that needle to kill the virus I learned this from my aunt she works in boston hospital in the blood lab
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