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Is HIV A Possibility Here?
iwas cutting my own hair --this created a open cut------my wife was taking a shower out of a bucket which is sometimes used by a hiv infected person to wash their backsides----she filled it up 2 times and used it for her bath---she dried herself and the touched my head where it is cut ----am i at risk
Wed, 16 Jul 2014
No at all , HIV can't be transmitted that way. HIV is not spread through sharing rooms, toilets , glasses , buckets etc. It has to spread though infected blood transfusion, unprotected sex with infected person , infected mother to child and sharing infected needles . Hope this helps. Thanks
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