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very scared

i cut myself on a razor left in the shoer of my local swimming baths and am now petrified i have contracted hiv as had flu several weeks later. am going crazy with worry.
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HIV is not transmitted from environmental surfaces and cannot be reconstituted.
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Thats what everyone keeps telling me but how can i be sure there wasnt infected blood on it which obviously wouldnt have dried out being in a shower. keep searching internet and getting conflicting opinions!
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You can not get HIV that way.
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