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Can I contract HIV in the following situation (semen in bloody nose)?
The situation is as follow:
I was in an adult bookstore in the video arcade section (please don't judge). While watching a video I put my hand down on a the seat and there was wet semen there. It got all over my fingers. I wiped it off, but did not wash my hands( I know thats gross, but again, please don't judge) and i'm not sure I really got it all off. My finger nails were sort of long and either during or pretty close after watching the film, I scratch the inside of my nose which made it bleed profusely. This happens to me sometimes in the winter. I used the had I had gotten the semen on to wipe the blood out of my nose and now I'm worried that if there was hiv in the semen it could have transmitted it to me through the bleeding cut in my nose. is it possible that I would have gotten hiv this way?
I was in an adult bookstore in the video arcade section (please don't judge). While watching a video I put my hand down on a the seat and there was wet semen there. It got all over my fingers. I wiped it off, but did not wash my hands( I know thats gross, but again, please don't judge) and i'm not sure I really got it all off. My finger nails were sort of long and either during or pretty close after watching the film, I scratch the inside of my nose which made it bleed profusely. This happens to me sometimes in the winter. I used the had I had gotten the semen on to wipe the blood out of my nose and now I'm worried that if there was hiv in the semen it could have transmitted it to me through the bleeding cut in my nose. is it possible that I would have gotten hiv this way?
The virus was already inactive once it "splooged" onto the seat.
You cannot get infected with HIV in the manner you described your event at the movies.
You cannot get infected with HIV in the manner you described your event at the movies.
It's an inanimate object erroneously believed to transmit transmission of a pathogen.
Any way, you had no risk.
HIV is not passed on in the way you described.
Any way, you had no risk.
HIV is not passed on in the way you described.
I understand what your saying, but this was not just touching something a person had hiv + person had touched. It was still wet semen going directly into a cut in my nose. would it still not be transmittable in that situation?
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