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The risk of HIV infection

I fear to go to the hospital when the blood nurse forgot to change a new blood taking needle , if others before me is an AIDS patient, I have the risk has been the blood taking needle infected with AIDS? Do I need to do an antibody detection?Please help me, thank you very much.
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Thank you for your help, but if it happens, theoretically Is it High risk?If the needle in the residual blood will constitute the infection?
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This is an irrational worry.  Health care workers do not reuse needles.
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