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Hiv risk from fingiring with a hangnail/cut near nailbed. Scared

Medhelp is doing a great work of making people aware about their health. I fingered a girl in vagina. I had a hangnail/little cut near nailbed. It was not fresh nor bleeding but it was redish. Do you think I was a risky encounter from which I may get HIV from vaginal fluid through hangnail/cut in case the girl was hiv positive. I would like to add that for a few minutes my finger remained inside vagina and not exposed to air for around 2-3 minutes. Shall be grateful for your reply/kind advise
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No risk for HIV transmission.
These cuts are not an effective route for infected fluid to reach out to your blood stream, which is essential for HIV transmission.

Ideally, if your fingers were chopped off and you were fingering some one with those profusely bleeding finger then there would have been a degree of risk to evaluate. However, we both are glad that's certainly not the case right? Or,  you would not have been here typing your fingers today. Hence, there's no risk, no testing would be necessary.



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Thanks Mike for prompt reply.
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