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Am I at risk of infection with a wound?

Here is the thing. I borrowed my neighbour's laundry card one day. I really appreciate his help and I feel bad about  judging his health condition based on his appearance. But his condition didn't look good when I saw him and there was some weird smell in his suite. So I couldn't stop thinking about he might be a drug user. I didn't thoroughly look at the card to see if there was any blood on it. And I got a blister on my finger and I squeezed it, so it became a wound. However, I can only squeeze out clear fluid from the wound, there was no blood from that wound, but it was uncomfortable when I applied iodine to it. The diameter of the wound is 0.1-0.2 cm, and the wound got into contact with the card directly. I am not sure whether this can be considered as direct contact because he just handed in his card to me, the process was pretty fast. I washed my hands after returned the card and applied iodine to the wound. So I am wondering if there was his blood or other body fluids like semen on that card, am I at high risk of HIV infection?
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3191940 tn?1447268717
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Risks for HIV are:
1)  Having unprotected, penetrative anal or vaginal sex, or
2)  Sharing intravenous needles.

NOTHING else you can think of is a risk for HIV.  There is no detail you could add to this event to make it a risk for HIV.  A wound that does not put you in the hospital would never in a million years provide sufficient entry for the virus into the body, and the amount of blood present from the other guy would have to be of such significant volume that he, too, would be going to the hospital.
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Thanks for your assessment, doctor!
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