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OCD improvements made. Need a bit of help!

I have made drastic lifestyle changes, and am currently learning CBT, I've been doing great, thanks to ya'lls help. I'm to the point that if somebody gives me a straight answer about my question, the thoughts go away. I have one situation that I could use some answers on. I tried to use the search function, but for some reason my phone does not like to cooperate.

        We have some cats in our barn, and an employee whom I suspect is on IV drugs. He constantly tries to catch the cats, and has been badly scratched multiple times, to the point of bleeding. Today he was chasing one of the cats, got scratched, bled, and left. Later on, I was looking for parts, and stick my hand in the wrong place, the same exact cat scratched me to the point of bleeding on the back of my hand, it's pretty deep. My questions are
1. Am I at risk of HIV from this incident at all? Even if it happened within a minute or two of his bleeding scratch?
2. Am I at risk of Hepatitis from this incident?
3. Is it possible that cats could somehow inject his blood into me?
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9784446 tn?1421337046
bro you cant get hiv like this, the virus can not survive in air for so long, so just keep on going with therapy, you have started now you have to keep on moving until you are completely free of ocd, best of luck
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