Needle in Taxi seat

[schuman04191028]

I took a Taxi yesterday, I suddenly felt a tingling in my scrotum position when I got off. I went home and found skin broken on the scrotum, but there was no bleeding. I checked my seat when I got off, but I didn't find a needle. Later, I called Taxi customer service and asked about 25 minutes from the last passenger getting off the bus. No abnormal behavior was found during the transfer monitoring, However, I still feel suspected that someone maliciously installed AIDS needles. If it is a needle, does the blood dry in 25 minutes and is not infectious，if only skin broken no bleeding, can infect AIDS virus?Is there any risk of me？Thank you very much!

[schuman04191028]

Thank you for your answer, but what worries me is why my skin is broken？I know you are very professional，I just want to know if HIV virus can infect into broken but no bleeding skin，thank you very much！

[AnxiousNoMore]

Firstly, hiv is so fragile that it is dead in air. Because of this fragility, the only non-sexual risk is sharing hollow needles that you quickly use to inject with. (A needle PRICK is not a risk for hiv because the hiv is already dead in air.) No one sat in the seat beside you and pulled a needle from his vein then quickly injected a needle into you - so you had no risk.  
- plus if you inject anywhere it hurts which is why nurses slowly depress the plunger, so imagine the pain of having a quick scrotum injection by somehow sitting on the plunger so fast that you pressed the plunger. Therefore, you were not injected.

[AnxiousNoMore]

This is not a scrotum forum so if you are concerned about broken skin there see doc.

[Sara_MHModerator]

Our members have fully answered your question that a supposed needle stick is not a risk as air inactivates the virus and the end of the needle would be exposed to air.  This includes if the skin is broken. Needle sticks are not injections like you see with shared drug IV needles.  

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[schuman04191028]

Broken skin hurt without bleeding can exchange HIV virus?

[GuitarRox]

You really were already answered. Adding this or that will NOT change the three ways someone gets HIV.  Unprotected vaginal, unprotected anal or sharing IV drug needles. A needle stick will NOT transmit the virus as it has been exposed to air which will inactivate any virus and what you describe about the malicious sticks? That is anxious thinking. I'd see a doctor for anxiety. Your scenario can't give you HIV is about 99.9999999999999% never happened (and that is being generous).

[schuman04191028]

But I still confuse that if HIV virus can enter into through broken but no bleeding skin…

[AnxiousNoMore]

It is irrelevant that you don't believe the science. This is not a science class for curious people like you who don't have any medical training but feel you know better than doctors.

There are thousands of medical conditions that you can actually get that you don't investigate. It is hiv fixation to continue worrying and asking never ending questions about a disease you don't have. Your priorities are mixed up because of this irrational hiv fixation.