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Can I get Hepatitis C from sharing nose jewelry?
So a couple months ago my cousin gave me her nose jewellery to wear after mine had come out. We sterilised it with hand sanitiser twice (I know this doesn't kill the HCV strain) and then inserted it into my pierced area that was still an open wound. My question is if her pierced area has been healed for years and probably didn't have blood on it, what is the chance that I contracted hepatitis C
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