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am i at risk? from an upset pregnant mother
i am pregnant and expecting my baby quite soon. recently i went to local CDC for some reason. and there i touched the door knob. there was a tiny wound on my thumb( quite small, about the size of a pinhole),and i am sure it was not fresh (it had been there for at least a week then). now i am worried that what if an HIV carrier had just touch that same door knob RIGHT before me, and what if his/her hand was wounded and left some blood on the knob? if all my "what ifs" really happened, am i at any risk?
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if an infected person left blood on the knob right before you touched it you were not at risk. because HIV survives otside the body (in blood) for a very short time depending on th equantity of blood and envronment. in this case the quantity of blood was ver very very low. so the virus could not have survive. so, you were not at risk.
Your 7 day wound has healed at that time . Healing of one day is good enough . And hiv doesn't survive in air . I think this is a paranoid situation. There was no risk at all
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