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Brotherhood ritual

Sorry for my question, it's not enough that I have my own HIV fears, but I remmember that in the last spring I caught my 13 years old son while doing a sort of brotherhood ritual that involved touching (binding) of bleeding excisions between him and 2 friends. Is there any HIV risk? This doc scared my and my wife to death! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12751723
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Your son at no time was a risk of contracting HIV in that manner.
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Like you were advised its highly unlikely his friends were hiv positive and what he engaged in,this brotherhood ritual,its not a common practise.I would advise testing in this situation.Because its direct blood to blood contact-- binding.At 6 weeks you can receive a good indication of his status and at 3 months a conclusive result.All the best.
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1790576 tn?1317505702
Tha'ts very bad news to me.
I thought that only sharing needles, unprotected sexual intercourse or mother to child are the routes of transmission. I'am forced to perform than my first HIV lesson to my son.
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Yes,the cuts would have to be deep and cross contamination would have to take place,however it would be highly unlikely that your sons friends would be infected with the virus.
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