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There my be a liitle of blood near the bucket full of syringes and needles

Hello, I am from china, my situations are as fellows:

I went to hospital to have a vaccine yestoday. but when the nurse took out the vaccine from the fridge beside the Injection station,  the vaccine fell off from her hand du to her negligence and roll around the bucket full of syringes and needles used before. She took up the vaccine from the ground and gave me a vaccine.
There was no obvious blood on the ground near the bucket. But after a patient receved a injection, the  syringe and needle are discarded in the bucket, so there may me a little of blood dripped on the ground near the bucket and the vaccine may rolled on it. So when the needle was inserted into the bottle to extract the vaccine, the needle may be stained.

Is there any possibility of infection caused by the blood on the ground near the bucket. Thank you.
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480448 tn?1426948538
ZERO risk.
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No risk
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Thank you very much.
The syringe had a cap on the needle, however, when the nurse was extracting the vaccine in the drug bottle into the syringe, the needle should needle into the bottle.
The bottle fell onto the ground near the bucket full of syringes and needles used before and may touched with something on the ground. That is what I am worried.
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480448 tn?1426948538
I'm sure the syringe had a cap on the needle.  You had no risk of HIV.  In the future, if something like that happens and you're not comfortable with the nurse using something that fell on the ground, speak up and ask him/her to get a new item.
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3149845 tn?1506627771
You would have to be injected with the blood inside the syringe.
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thanks for your help.
Although the hiv virus was  outside the host,  they were still in the blood.
So I am afraid they  may be still active.
I am sorry I have a little  obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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3149845 tn?1506627771
Hi, the hiv virus doesnot survive outside the host so from what you describe, there was no risk for contracting hiv.
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