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Blood collector (nurse) made a mistake when she collected my blood, and am I safe

I had the blood test in Laverty pathology (in Australia), The nurse assembled the needle and took off the needle cap, and then, placed it on the metal desk directly. After preparing the band-aid, she use the needle to collect the my blood. There is a discarded needle collection box on the metal desk. If there is a drop of blood which contains hiv on the desk, and my needle touches the blood, the nurse used this contaminated needle to pump my blood. Will I get infected?  the gap between me and last patient is 1.5 minutes. Or I mean,  a drop of blood exposes in the air for 1.5 minutes could be inactive? Do I need to take PEP (already 24 hours)
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Writing in context to your private message, you were offered excellent advice by the forum and my opinion can not be any different from any one here. You should stop reading much about HIV on the internet right away, it is not going to help you, there is a lot of information out there and you are only going to misinterpret what you would read to make things worse for you. Take the advice you have been offered and move ahead in life.
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sry, I did not receive your PM
There is nothing to discuss on pm, my response is right above. You're HIV negative.
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HIV is not able to infect outside the body therefore it would not be a risk if there was any blood on any surfaces.
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I already told you "HiV is dead in air so your theory is not going anywhere. " I also told you that on another of your threads, so reread it then you will have the answer to your questions next time.
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You don't have any medical training, so it is unrealistic for you to think you know how to do the nurse's job, and unrealistic for you to think that no one in the hospital figured out that she doesn't know how to do her job - except you think that you figured it all out with no medical training.
No risk, move on. HiV is dead in air so your theory is not going anywhere.
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Your problem is not disease, it is fear of disease which is a mental health problem. You need to see a therapist instead of going to forums and not believing anything you are told then getting scared later and coming back for more advice that you don't accept.
You have had a few threads about hiv fears when you didn't even have a risk, but your mental health issue is so bad at this point that you are testing when you don't even have a risk, then dreaming up that you got hiv during the test. See a therapist to deal with this problem.
Thanks, my friend, I just contacted with pathology. staff says that nurse is a rookie, and made the same kinds mistake before, and still in training ... and let me show the situation to area coordinator.  So, if my needle touched the hiv blood and inject me later, I will also be fine, because hiv would be inactive in air for seconds. is it?
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