Hello!. Well I d like to ask wether if, by any chance, can infectious diseases can be transmitted by liquid soap? (If they can survive in it that is). I am just a little bit paranoid about this so I just had to ask. See I am a Medicine student (Living in Mexico), currently in 2nd semester and I ve started going to the ER to practice stitching. The other day a patient came with a very small cut on his leg and only needed 1 stitch so the Doctor (under his supervision) allowed me to perform a unique stitch on this patient. Long story short, everything was done properly I had gloves, everything was sterilized, etc, etc... Then when I was finished, the Doctor sent me to wash the material I had used, not knowingly I assumed the hard part was over and proceded to wash the material I had used (this being just the scissors to cut the nylon and the tweezers to hold the nail) without gloves, hence I had never washed it before. (And I was kind of unwaare or just not thining about the risks of having contact with biologycal fluids). Now I m possitive there was practiaclly no blood in the instruments and also I only touched the from the most proximal area, not anyway near the end (whereas that part of the tweezers could have been in touch with tissue or blood) with my bare hands and then proceeded to use a brush to get the farest area. I d also like to note that the equipment (only 2 items were used as stated above) had been on the tray for a few minutes (around 5 or 10 ish) (I like to think that this can also inactivate some viruses i.e HIV ). I had no cuts on my hands nor my nails were too short at the time. From the little and humble knowledge I ve acquired during this year studiyng I know that most viruses will become inactive just by being exposed outside the body even if the do not have a capside. So my questions are: Is there any chance that I could contract any type of viruses by having contact with the surgycal equipment if I didnt have gloves on? If stick my hand in the soap were you d usually just sink the brush to get soap and the brush off the equipment to later apply it on the steril solution, could any type of virus survive being in that soap, that could ve been in contact with my skin after I grabbed some of that soap with my bare hands? / Could having my hands covered in soap when touching the instruments, helped me in any way cretaing a more hostile enviroment for any virus/bacteria when touching the equipment? I know I might be overreacting to this situation but I just can t get this out of my mind, hoping to see someone elses point of view on this. Also sorry for any weird terms being used here, English is not my mother language so if something is unclear, please state so and I ll explain even further what I mean. Thanks in advance.