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ARS / Early HIV symptoms?

Hi, I am a male who had one protected vaginal sexual encounter with a female prostitute in Singapore 8 days ago. From what I remember, the condom was put on correctly (almost sure), initially for about 3 - 4 minutes of oral sex from her (with the condom), and then for about 3 - 4 minutes of vaginal sex after which I ejaculated inside the condom from what I remember.
The big question is about 3.5 days after that encounter, I woke up with a sore throat, feverishness and weakness. The feverishness has last for about 4 days and almost gone, but the sore throat is not going anywhere, it is now day 5. It is very unsual for me to get this without a cold or runny nose or sneezing.
I am very worried that this is ARS. I hardly ever have casual sex with prostitutes, and have only 5 - 6 incidences in the last 3 years, all with protection. Can ARS start this early? What is the probability from female to male even after wearing a condom? She removed the condom carefully with a bunch of tissue paper.
I really appreciate your comments.
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Thanks all for your comments
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"In that case, the risk with condom must be even much lower..?"

It is much lower because it is ZERO. You can't get lower than that.
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And of top of that I don't even know if she was HIV positive...and it is Singapore, so hopefully the overall incidence is little lower compared to other high incidence countries.
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Thx, makes me feel a little better. Given the anxiety, I am never doing this again. The sore throat is not going away....I'll hang in there an do a test in a month. I have read that in any case the per encounter risk of female to make transmission is low even from an HIV positive female to an HIV negative male. Is that true? In that case, the risk with condom must be even much lower..?
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sounds like she gave you a cold...its NOT hiv !
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You had no risk from protected sex.
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