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Want to know you risk exposure to hiv from blood?
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HIV risk with Blood: There could be two answers to this question. First, it is near impossible to get HIV today in the western world from a blood transfusion. Blood banks have instituted significant safety measures to prevent this from happening. And, then with direct exposure to blood from a human that is infected with hiv. This, today, would be the high risk and dangerous exposure.
Answered 6/10/2014
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