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Accident ! Need help!
Deer all, my last experience was incredible. I visited a friend of mine the other day. He was very enthusiastic and cut a fruit with a knife. But his finger was broken by that knife. So I helped him stop bleeding with Band-Aid. Of course, some blood was left on my fingers. But I didn't wash my hands because I think it is a little thing and it doesn't matter. After five minutes, I picked my nose deeply with that finger which has some blood on it. (Because of my bad habbit , my nose has a fresh wound these days. nasal mucus contained some blood streak that day! ) Before I left his home, he told me that he infected HIV several months ago. He is very optimistic and I believe he will survive for a long long time.....After one day, my nose flow nosebleed automatically! It happened twice!! I suddenly called up that I touched some blood of my friend and then picked my nose which has a fresh wound!! I terribly scared!! So how much chance of infection for me ?? Is this a way of blood to blood?? Is my nosebleed related to it ?? Please help me. Thx
Move along you never had an exposure and there has never been a doctor infected with a wounded nose.
I know about that. But my experience is the same as medical exposure. Some doctors infect hiv from their wounded nose. 0.3 percent...So I am upset.
I know about that. But my experience is the same as medical exposure. Some doctors infect hiv from their wounded nose. 0.3 percent...So I am upset.
once exposed to air, hiv becomes INACTIVE and UNABLE to infect.
you had NO risk, regardless of what you picked ! ! !
you had NO risk, regardless of what you picked ! ! !
NO EXPOSURE...HIV is a weak virus and can not survive outside a host body for more than seconds unless it was under lab conditions.
with health =)
with health =)
HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions; therefore, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.
HIV is transmitted by;
Unprotected penetrative anal and/or vaginal sex
Sharing works with other IV drug abusers
Mother to child
HIV is transmitted by;
Unprotected penetrative anal and/or vaginal sex
Sharing works with other IV drug abusers
Mother to child
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