Your risk is very, very low – so low as to be close to zero. You did the right thing by asking him and the confidence of his answer, as well as his negative test result, should reassure you. So, your question is, is there a possibility that he might have had a negative antibody test when he was most recently tested because he had had HIV but had not yet seroconverted? The answer is that it is possible but most unlikely. He told that his other encounters were protected; why doubt him when he told you the truth about everything else. There is no reason for you to worry. You do not have a medical reason to seek HIV testing following this exposure. EWH
Hi Doctor,
I follow up on my incident ... Exactly 3 weeks after this, I feel very sick. It started yesterday with a very bad sore throat which lasted all night long. I had a little temperature during the night (99.8 F and usually it's under 99 when I took it the night). This morning, I have no more pain in the throat but I have muscle pain and runny nose with a mild fever. I'm really scared that it could be ARS. The timing is perfect and I don't understand how I got a cold in Los angeles during September .... Does those symptoms should worry me ?
You have a cold. Your symptoms don't worry me in the least, given the other information you have provided. My advice - chicken soup is good for a cold (and you can catch cold in LA in September). This is not ARS, you do not have HIV. EWH