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HIV under fingernails

If HIV fluid got under your fingernails from hand-genital contact, does the virus die immediately while underneath the fingernails?

My understanding is that the virus is damaged/non infectious immediately when fluids are transferred onto the hands no matter if its under the fingernails or any other part of the hand.

I think I already know the answer but I would appreciate a response.

Thanks!
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Thanks for the response.  Just to clarify:

If HIV infected secretions/blood got under the fingernails, it is still exposed to those air and temperature variations under the fingernails, thus rendering it inactive and permanently non infectious?
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I'm not sure what you mean by "HIV fluid," but I will presume you mean bodily fluids.

Exposure to air and temperature variations renders the virus inactive within seconds. Nothing now known "kills" it.

Hand/genital contact, more commonly known as masturbation, is not a means of HIV transmission.

You had no risk.
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