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Recently I got in to a fist fight with a bunch of guys. It was me and 3 other friends. It was about 10 of them. The  guy punches my friend , so the fight starts. My friend punches the one guy and he starts bleeding from nose. My friends said he had the guys blood on his fist and it was on my other friend shirt. I was drunk. I started to fight the guy with blood on his nose. I didn't notice any blood when he approached me. So we started to wrestle and he backs me on to the hood of a car. Its kinda blurry what happened when I was on the car but I fell off the hood on to the ground. The guyz  kicks me in the face. After that the fight pretty much ends. I get up and I have a huge laceration

on my face. it was the side where the guy kicked me. I needed stitches. later that night I realize I had blood on my Upper chest, shirt and pants. Idk if it was from the laceration or the guys nose. Im worried to death. I didn't have any other cuts or anything besides my face. And the laceration Im pretty
sure was after me and the guy started wrestling. what's chance of infection?

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[Edward W Hook, MD]

Welcome to our Forum.  I note that you have made 18 posts in the past 6 weeks, most of which seem to deal with transmission of HIV through actions such as a trip to the barber shop, getting infected though your eyes and now as the result of taking part in a fight in which you sustained a fairly large laceration.  All of this indicates that you worry a lot about HIV, perhaps more than you need to.  HIV is transmitted through sex or injection of the virus deep into tissue.  It is not transmitted through touching, kissing, or surface contamination with infected materials.  This includes when blood splashes on people.

In the case that you describe, several comments:
1.  Chances are that none of the people you were fighting with had HIV.  HIV is a rare disease.
2.  Your laceration sounds like it was the result of a kick or the trauma of falling off of the car, not a punch.  Even if it were, this would be most unusual means of HIV transmission.  

FYI, there are professional boxers who have had HIV yet there are no reports of transmission through punches/cuts/etc.

Bottom line, in my opinion, getting HIV from the fight you were in did not put you at risk for HIV.  I see no reason for concern or testing related to the events you describe.  On the other hand, getting yourself into situations like this in which you wind up brawling is probably not very good for your health.  EWH.

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Thanks doc

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Oh yeah the guys friend kicks me