Dirty tweasers to pull off a tick. Risk of getting infected with diseases?

[ScaredCats]

My mom used our dogs tick removing tweasers to pull a nymphal tick off of me. I was bleeding a little and We did not properly sanitize the tweasers before use. The best she did for sanitizing was heat it in the stove fire for just a second and lightly rinse it. Anyway, since the tweaser s are normally used for pulling ticks off of dogs.. Is there a risk of getting diseases like hiv,or hepatitis since ticks are being pulled off with them and could maybe carry other people's blood? If so how small is that risk?

[flyinlynn]

As far as hep c the virus is a human virus. Hepatitis C is not easily contracted. You are not at risk of hepatitis C. Hep c infected blood from an uninfected person must enter the blood stream of an uninfected person. There are no known incidents of hep c being transmitted in the manner you have described.

For other conditions ask in the appropriate forum but if I were to guess I would think Dodd and humans do not share most virus infections.