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Chance of hiv infection from sitting on a toilet seat with dried and or wet smeared blood with possible open cuts?
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Zero: During the years in which there was no treatment, household contact NEVER led to infection. Barbara, what's really going on? Someone with open cuts on their bottom sits on a toilet seat smeared with WET blood? Even if this weren't bizarre and hugely improbable, a cut that's not actively bleeding is sealed with fibrin; a bleeding cut will wash virus away. Please get help with these fears.
Answered 11/3/2016
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