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Hair Cut Transmission
I was just in for a haircut and I heard the woman go "ouch", but didn't think anything of it. When she was checking me out, she had grabbed a tissue because she had cut herself. I am worried about the chance of transmission from when she apparently was bleeding and kept cutting my hair. She handed me her comb and had me use it after she was done, and I can only assume there was blood on it. I am sick to my stomach with worry. Is there a chance I contracted something if I had a wound I didn't know about on my scalp?
Every hour, people all over America get cut and rub against someone else's open cut on the job, at play (think of kids in playgrounds) in sports and in the home yet no one has ever got HIV this way or you would read it in the newspapers.
HIV is instantly inactivated in saliva and also instantly in air which means they cant infect even kissing or with open cuts.
HIV is instantly inactivated in saliva and also instantly in air which means they cant infect even kissing or with open cuts.
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