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Can micro hcv particles infect me through sharing a clipboard/pen if they get onto my hands and then get into an open, bleeding cut 1-2 hrs later?
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Hcv transmission: Only blood exposure from hcv infected individual into open would could potentially transfer. 30% of individual with hcv don't know mode of transmission.
Answered 9/29/2016
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