possible risk from bandage-to-wound blood exposure

Would appreciate your time and tolerance in answering the following:

At my workplace, on the aircraft as a flight attendant, I had a deep cut and a colleague helped me by taking out of the medical kit the hansaplast plasters and applying one on my wound whilst I was holding my finger. That was ofcourse very kind of him but my worry is that he did not use a glove and if he had a cut himself or blood on his finger when touching the plaster which he then applied on my wound would that pose HIV transmiison risk? I know all this is 'what-if' and theoretical but in our job unnoticed cuts happen often and I would appreciate an answer based on the assumption that he had HIV blood from his finger on the plaster, when oepning it for me, which he then applied on my wound.

Wanted to add that exactly 4 weeks after the incident I developed a non-dry cough lasting over a week and on another site I posted my risk I received the following reply which worries me that there may be a transfer of blood from a bandage to my wound:

''The theoretical risk would be fresh HIV-tainted blood coming into contact with your open wound. This would be an extremely remote possibility. If you're worried, you could get an HIV-antibody test at the three-month mark. I'm confident the result would be negative''

Would appreciate any other comments please.
Happy 2010!

[Teak]

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[LIZZIE LOU]

i have just read your posting history...which i might say is VERY MUCH ocd based.  please do not continue these unrealistic, anxiety driven questions.

hiv is transmitted through...
unprotected vaginal/anal intercourse
sharing iv drug works
mother to child

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[LIZZIE LOU]

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[droopy722]

Hi to everyone,

Just wanted to share my negative result with all of you and hopefully this will help us all realise how OCD makes us suffer unrealistic fears..please read my posts and you will see how unrealistic my fears were concerning HIV transmission.

With more therapy and more encouragement we can all fight OCD!
Thank you to everyone for your time and patience in dealing with my posts