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Used handtowel with dry blood on it can hiv be transmitted?

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Dr. Robert Killian answered

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HIV is Hard to Get: Hiv is very fragile; it does not survive outside of living body fluids. It is not something one gets from a towel regardless if there is dried blood or not.

Answered 6/13/2013

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