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Hiv infection hi i am very afraid of infecting hiv now. i fist bumped a drug smoker and got a scratch on my knuckle. ?
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Unlikely: For hiv you need fresh blood to fresh blood contact or body fluid direct contact with another person's body fluid. There have been rare cases where transmission has occured by some other ways but those are rare.
Answered 8/13/2018
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