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HIV in healthcare setting
Hi..new here..quick question. I'm a healthcare worker. I was giving a flu shot to a young girl. I removed the needed and retracted it correctly. However ..when I retracted the needle.i thought I may have felt a little of the residual shot hit me close to my eye...I never came in contact directly with the needle. Am I overeacting? Thanks in advance.
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This is absolutely zero concern for HIV. In a medical setting, you would need to plunge a needle that had a patient's blood inside of the vacuum syringe into yourself, and be lucky enough to push the syringe plunger down and have it enter your bloodstream. You're a long way from that happening.
You're never going to be infected via minuscule amounts of blood like the quantity that would be on a vaccine needle, no matter what.
You're never going to be infected via minuscule amounts of blood like the quantity that would be on a vaccine needle, no matter what.
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Thank you very much for your reply!
No need at all for testing over this incident? Sorry my anxiety has gotten the better if me
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