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does a splinter can causes hiv?
I got splinter(wood; due to wooden chair) in the clinic of a genitourinary, do i have a risk of having HIV? since there's a possibility of other patient with hiv may contaminate the chair due to cut or other lesion? or am i just thinking too much?
HIV is instantly inactivated in air so effectively is dead so there isn't any such thing as a contaminated chair, otherwise many people with cuts would get it when they sat of a toilet seat in a public washroom. It is a frail virus outside its comfort zone unlike a cold virus that can infect you from touching a contaminated surface then not washing when you eat, etc. You are so safe that you don't even need to test.
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