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I just had a quick question. are finger pricks reused at doctors office for hiv tests? i am pretty paranoid about that
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No risk no worry: No doctor's office would ever re-use the instruments used for finger prick blood tests, whether for HIV or anything else. Probably nobody in the US ever has caught HIV from having blood drawn, at least not in the past 40 years. This is nothing to be worried about!
Answered 7/28/2019
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