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A member asked:

If a little hiv+ blood was mixed accidentally with ink in the gel pen production process, would the virus still survive when i bought that pen?

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No: Would survive less than a few minutes.Very Fragile virus outside of body

Dr Kuitems agreed

Answered 3/10/2019

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