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Possible to get hiv/hep c from makeup brushes, including eye makeup brushes? what if brush was accidentally not cleaned between people? likely?
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Unlikely: If not impossible, highly unlikely. Hep c is predominantly transmitted by transfusions (now very rarely in usa), by sharing needles during drug use, possibly but infrequently sexually, by organ transplantation, or other intimate contacts of this nature.
Answered 3/27/2013
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