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A member asked:
Got my nails done at the salon yesterday. the manicurist slightly cut my cuticle with his nail filing machine which was unsterlised. any risk of hiv?
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Infinitessimal: ..... the risk might even be zero. Incredibly unlikely that there could be any HIV virus on the nail filing machine. And it would have had to survive there in the hostile environment of a nail salon for who knows how long. I wouldn't worry another nano second about it. Stay well:)
Answered 11/28/2017
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