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Blood on my deep wound

There is a deep wound on my finger and the water with fresh blood (it exposed to air not even 5 seconds) and the blood dropped into the water and touch my wound immediately. Will this put me on hiv risk? My wound is really deep.
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Both wounds would have to be so deep that neither of you could stand the pain of having that deep wound thrust that far into the other person's wound, and that would only be a theoretical risk. Since  you just had water and blood rubbed against it, so the virus was effectively long dead from being outside the other person's body. Move on from hiv because millions of people share blood from cuts every year and no one gets hiv from shaking hands with someone else who is bleeding.
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Thank yoh very much.
So I dont need to do any testing right?
This answers all of your HIV questions, and if you can think of any more just reread about the 3. You had zero risk therefore  testing is irrelevant to your situation because you had zero risk. HIV is a fragile virus, which is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
Thank you, you really help me a lot
I have sore throat after 4 weeks and diarrhea after 2 weeks, my sore throat is already 1 week, are these HIV symptom?
Obviously the answer is no, because you had no risk. Why would you be having HIV symptoms when you were never exposed to HIV?
So you mean my sore throat is just plain sore throat and plain diarrhea?
Yes. If there is no risk, there is no virus, there is no symptom related to it, no testing necessary.

See your doctor for your discomfort, HIV is not your concern.
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