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Hi docs if u get blood of other on ur hands what r the chances of getting hiv infection.after that i washed my hands in running wster?
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Very small: Certainly if the person whose blood got on your hands is hiv-infected there is some chance, but unless you had an open cut or other wound on your hands the virus is unlikely to get through the skin.. Prompt washing probably was good, too. Contact with mucous membranes (through sex, of splashing of blood or other fluids in your mouth or eyes) carries a greater risk of transmission.
Answered 9/8/2013
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