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Blood spat onto my face

Dear Doctor,
                 I was persuaded to attend a concert last night which was held at a popular gay venue. While waiting downstairs on a friend, an individual (I'm not sure if he was gay, and if so, if he was infected) came running around the corner with blood trickling from his nose down to his mouth and with a giant sight/exhhale, managed to somehow hit me straight in the face with droplets of his blood. I'm not sure if any got into my eye, I simply felt the spray on my face and paniced. I immediately rubbed my eyes, tried to douse them (in my desperation, please don't judge) with my saliva. I then used some baby wipes I had in the car to wipe down my hands (which I'd used to clear the blood from my face, leaving two streaks of blood on my hands) my face and my eyes some 5 minutes after the initial spray on my face. After getting home some 15 minutes later, I washed my hands and face with an anti-bacterial wash, and used water to wash out my eyes twice over.
    Now, I know that generally I am a very paranoid person when it comes to my health, but, I know that if a droplet of infected blood were to be sprayed into my eyes from a fresh bleed, then it is almost a certainty that I was also infected, which is a prospect that is currently horrifying me. So, firstly, could you kindly outline the risks that I face after this event, and when should I go for a test to see if I'm infected, 12 weeks?
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Thank you very much.
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Non at all.
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Thanks Teak

given your credentials I'm inclined to accept your answer as an absolute [also because I want to soo badly =) ]

So, just so I am clear, your opinion is that given the situation described above, blood spray on my face, there is no appreciable risk?
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You did not have a risk. Nothing to worry about.
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