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Can aids be contracted by swapping navel piercing jewelry without sterilization?
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Infection: Even if it would be usual for HIV to be contracted in this manner - an unhealed naval piercing is a portal for transmission of many types of germs. Don't Do It !
Answered 10/31/2015
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