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Yes, Virginia you can get it from sex continued
Copyman:
Was not attacking you, really, just trying to bring sense into the discussion. Drug addicts who got HIV or Hep C from sharing needles was because blood went into the syringe and was shared that way, not because there was blood on the needle. like I said there are things we need to be careful about but for me and I said me I choose not to obsess about the near impossible.
Was not attacking you, really, just trying to bring sense into the discussion. Drug addicts who got HIV or Hep C from sharing needles was because blood went into the syringe and was shared that way, not because there was blood on the needle. like I said there are things we need to be careful about but for me and I said me I choose not to obsess about the near impossible.
Well well, I was just about to get up and take a shower, but just figured I'd wait a minute,,because I knew it would only be another minute before you said hi.
You said
but you were fretting about the possibility of a hairdresser knicking your ear with HCV-infected scissors. I've seen many lists of methods of transmission and they do not include this possibility.
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Oh yeah, ha ha do you really think we would read that on a list of methods of transmission?? lol No, you're not going to see THAT on the list, but if you can't figure that answer out as to why we won't see that....I won't bother giving my opinion.
Have a nice night ladies!
You said
but you were fretting about the possibility of a hairdresser knicking your ear with HCV-infected scissors. I've seen many lists of methods of transmission and they do not include this possibility.
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Oh yeah, ha ha do you really think we would read that on a list of methods of transmission?? lol No, you're not going to see THAT on the list, but if you can't figure that answer out as to why we won't see that....I won't bother giving my opinion.
Have a nice night ladies!
I really hope it wasn't my comment in the deleted thread that started all of this hubub. My thought on the subject is that we should all protect ourselves and others from HCV but we should not live in fear of what "might" happen.
I completely acknowledge the risks about sexual transmission and that is why I take precautions. Sex is not a common form of transmission and I take issue with scaring people with paranoid rhetoric. We need to educate people about HCV. Tell them the facts and give them the tools to make good decisions. Scaring them silly isn't going to achieve those things.
Some of these posts about transmission would have people scared to get their hair cut. Maybe we should be. I dunno but I'm not gonna live my life worrying.
[quote]So in other words,,,you're saying that if your doctor sticks himself with a needle after taking it out of the arm of an infected patient, he has nothing to worry about? Wow. So your doctor is only at risk if he takes that dirty needle, sticks it in his arm and draws his blood back into the syringe and then he must inject that blood back into his body, which is then at that point 'mixed,'as you say, with the infected blood,,,,,ONLY THEN he is at risk? Its hard to believe you're serious.But I know you are. [/quote]
A medical worker that sticks themself with a dirty needle ought to be tested. Nobody has said any different as far as I have seen.
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I completely acknowledge the risks about sexual transmission and that is why I take precautions. Sex is not a common form of transmission and I take issue with scaring people with paranoid rhetoric. We need to educate people about HCV. Tell them the facts and give them the tools to make good decisions. Scaring them silly isn't going to achieve those things.
Some of these posts about transmission would have people scared to get their hair cut. Maybe we should be. I dunno but I'm not gonna live my life worrying.
[quote]So in other words,,,you're saying that if your doctor sticks himself with a needle after taking it out of the arm of an infected patient, he has nothing to worry about? Wow. So your doctor is only at risk if he takes that dirty needle, sticks it in his arm and draws his blood back into the syringe and then he must inject that blood back into his body, which is then at that point 'mixed,'as you say, with the infected blood,,,,,ONLY THEN he is at risk? Its hard to believe you're serious.But I know you are. [/quote]
A medical worker that sticks themself with a dirty needle ought to be tested. Nobody has said any different as far as I have seen.
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...but you were fretting about the possibility of a hairdresser knicking your ear with HCV-infected scissors. I've seen many lists of methods of transmission and they do not include this possibility.
if you read it in the vein it was written, I am not comparing hcv to typhoid. i am saying that germs and viruses are invisible, so to say that just because you don't SEE blood on a needle doesn't mean its not there.
this place really amazes me sometimes. does anybody really read what someone posts or do they skim throug something and comment without reading the post.
this place really amazes me sometimes. does anybody really read what someone posts or do they skim throug something and comment without reading the post.
oh for heavens sake, that is ridiculous to compare HCV to typhoid. You are blowing it all out of porportion.
You correlating HCV and Typhoid is just paranoia run amuck.
You correlating HCV and Typhoid is just paranoia run amuck.
So in other words,,,you're saying that if your doctor sticks himself with a needle after taking it out of the arm of an infected patient, he has nothing to worry about? Wow. So your doctor is only at risk if he takes that dirty needle, sticks it in his arm and draws his blood back into the syringe and then he must inject that blood back into his body, which is then at that point 'mixed,'as you say, with the infected blood,,,,,ONLY THEN he is at risk? Its hard to believe you're serious.But I know you are.
btw I don't like if a health care worker doesn't wash their hands before they touch me. I don't allow it. I also insist on them putting "new" gloves from the box in front of me to examine me. I just don't care for those gloves that touched the doorknob as she walked in. I guess its all in what you're used to. I've been in ladies rooms where women flush and walk out without washing their hands. But your right, I don't SEE any germs on their hands, so I guess they can't spread disease.I'm obsessing again.
btw have you ever read anything about how "typhoid mary" got her name? Just wondering.
you call it not obsessing of the near impossible. I call it being careful of the highly probable. Doctors don't need microscopes in your world. If you can't see it, its not there. Thats the message you convey.
End of story. I'm not mad at you and I hope your not mad at me. We just disagree, thats okay though. Have a good night.
btw I don't like if a health care worker doesn't wash their hands before they touch me. I don't allow it. I also insist on them putting "new" gloves from the box in front of me to examine me. I just don't care for those gloves that touched the doorknob as she walked in. I guess its all in what you're used to. I've been in ladies rooms where women flush and walk out without washing their hands. But your right, I don't SEE any germs on their hands, so I guess they can't spread disease.I'm obsessing again.
btw have you ever read anything about how "typhoid mary" got her name? Just wondering.
you call it not obsessing of the near impossible. I call it being careful of the highly probable. Doctors don't need microscopes in your world. If you can't see it, its not there. Thats the message you convey.
End of story. I'm not mad at you and I hope your not mad at me. We just disagree, thats okay though. Have a good night.
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