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A member asked:
Hi i did a manicure and i the manicurist cut me by the cuticle cutter and i bleed a little .am i at risk of hiv ?
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No risk: Probably nobody in the world ever caught HIV from something like this. Don't worry about it.
Answered 12/19/2020
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