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I need an answer please

i bought a Sexual Lubricant from local store the seal was broken i dident think much about till i started to get ill a couple of days later, suppose someone put hiv infected fluid inside the lube could it have survived in the lube enough to put me at risk of getting infected?  should this warrent an hiv test?  please help me with this......
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1486982 tn?1289461783
Thats crazy talk and thinking. NO you don't need a test but maybe a psychiatrist..
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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.

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thanks lanvin if anyone else has some comments it be cool on this issue if  anyone with specialist info can  step in, it be great i know its 1 and only event for me i dont typically act this way.......  
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