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Could you contract hiv, or any hepatitus strains from touching a dollar bill with blood on it?
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Highly unlikely: Highly unlikely, especially of blood on the money is dried, and you have no open/bleeding wounds on your hands.
Answered 5/16/2015
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No HIV risk: The answer here is no. Skin is a perfect barrier to HIV. HIV is also not transmit table from inanimate objects such as this.
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