plz help thanks

[emma8311]

hi i'm emma i found this site recently its great .. i have a question .. i have a sister shes 24 we went to the store yesterday night and this guy walked in he looked really weird dirty clothes face full of rash he was scratching his nose touching his ears .. he took some stuff and left then we went out less than a 30 seconds after him .. my sister touch the same door nob and it did not hit me until now she was touching her eyes his mouth and stuff can she get hcv if that guy had it .. and he was scratching his rash and had blod on his hands plz help me .. thank u .. i did not tell my sis yet but am really worried 4 her !

[comeagain]

Yes I think you shall take the door knob as rocker suggest to a lab.
I must ask is it really your sister we are talking about here!!
Or could it  in fact be you your self its all about.

I totally understand if you don´t wanna admit such a careless and irresponsible behavior.
If you take the door knob  and investigate the blood on that, nobody has to know who have touched it in the first place do they!!

Of course if it should turned out some of you are contaminated (infected) that person most come clear, but surely you undestand that your self ( or your sister, aunt, onkle or who ever it was who touched the knob)

The chanses neither of you are infected would be about one in a billion if even that,but if you are  real worried then you can´t test a door knob to many  can you?

ca

[Rockerforlife]

You would have to see blood on the door knob first of all which seems like you didnt,second you would have to have an open cut or wound and  the blood on the door would have to contactwith the wound or cut,third ,the man would would have to have hep C in the first place which you dont know,  if your that worried if there was blood on the door that you could see you could take it to a lab,but this is little extreme


"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience".
George Bernard Shaw

[nygirl7]

More likely than getting hepc this way you've already contracted it from a dentist or nail salon or innoculations when they did not disinfect as thoroughly as they do now.  Many people with hepc are well respected adults who while some have made mistakes in their youth or contracted the disease via one of those ways.

If hep were that easy to catch it would make the swine flu panic look like nothing and probably everyone would have it already.

[becksta29]

she will be fine, copyman and bill r right,dont worry...its very rare people get it unless they inject the virus into themselves,transmission etc.
i understand ur concern,i myself use hand sanitizer evtime i touch public things that could have virus or germs etc but im obsessive compulsive lol so people tell me.
to ease ur mind get her to go get tested but im tellin u now unless she shares needles or other items that cut us with a hepc carrier she will most prob b negative.
stop stressing take care...gd on u 4 lookin out for her...u r a gd sis.

[Bill1954]

Emma, think about this for a minute; if diseases like HIV and HCV transmitted this easily, the whole world would be infected. The statistics tell is that only around 1.5% of the population is infected with it, and that figure is getting lower, not higher. While it might seem possible to transmit like this, in the real world, it doesn’t happen.

You and your sis are fine; most of us got this from sharing needles, transfusions before 1991 when they began screening the blood banks, etc.

Take care—

Bill

[emma8311]

hey , i really appreciate ur replay .. so if she had a cut even tiny its possible plz bare with me shes my little sister .. if shes in any sort of risk i have to know plzzz .. thanks again

[copyman]

no risk at all from this exposure.
Hypothetically your sister would have to had cuts on her hands then his blood would have had to get exactly into that cut. Not very likely. You and your sister forget about it and go live your life.