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I am wondering why there havent been any test to find out how long HIV will acutally survive outside the body. It seems like to me it would be an easy study. You cant find anywhere to help judge risks and stuff for environmental exposure like comeing across blood on something. All you can find is what it says on the cdc website but you cant find any hard data on actuall times and stuff. Does it last seconds, minutes or hours outside the body, thats all i want to know and i bet there is millions out there thats wondering the same.
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I had a needlestick injury at work 4 years ago. I was working in an empty block of flats in a social housing area.
A colleagues asked if could cover him to go to the dentist as the boss was coming round. I asked him to leave the keys in one of the letterboxes.
I checked  the letterboxes of every flat for the keys. When I tried the top one a syringe stuck in my little finger.
I went up to the emergency room.

Although the area is infested with herion and crack use the Doctors said it was VERY LOW RISK, even though it might have been there for only a few days to weeks.
My boss back at the depot at least was clued up on occupational HIV risks. When I was in the next day he said they should have administered PEPSE. I followed up and they said it was VERY LOW RISK so no need for PEP. My 2nd cousin is the head of service for Accident and Emergency at the hospital.

Ironically I left that job because of the state of some of the properties, unhygienic conditions I had to work in (e.g. no water, animal, sometimes human waste, blood spurts ...) and risks of infections form 'mystery fluids' around the houses. Ultimately this ended in me being out of cash and having to stay over at a female acquaintance's place where I ended up having a possible HIV exposure.

It's VERY LOW RISK, NEGLIGIBLE, move on.
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Well if you can't make any sense of anything that anyone tells you. I don't know what you are going to do. We try to explain it so a Middle School student could understand it and I doubt that you are a less than a Middle School student.
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What about HEP though, is there a risk for that from my risks i said above
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that still doesnt nake any sense to me,  If i have no risk then i have no risk regardless if teak tells me that or a id doctor
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Because they are the experts thats why. You keep asking people here about the risk of exposure to HIV or HEP. What do you want from here ??? there are very knowledge people here and they give great answers and they answer many of the same questions over and over again. I think you have nothing to worry about from this.
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what the heck are you talking about , why do you keep bringing up going to see an I.D. dr for.
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Oh my maybe you should go see a Infectious Disease Doctor to get all your answers then if not by a plastic bubble to live in or a shrink. Good luck.
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Im not really stressing about it. And i definatly dont need to see a HIV dr just to ask questions, from what i know you can see an Id dr unless you have a referal from your regualr dr and he is not gonna send me there just to answer some questions.  I am gonna get a test in Febuary and if its negative then im gonna leave it alone but i was just wanting to know what my risks would be from these events, teak said i have no risk so then im just gonna get a test and hope for the best
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hhhuuummm...i smell a rat
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If i have no risk then for HIV what about Hep from these events.
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I would make appt. with a HIV doctor and ask him all the question you have about HIV maybe he can calm your stress and fears about HIV.
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So if you splashed water into your face the water would contaminate the HIV and not pose a transmission risk, even touching blood with intact skin would not transmit the virus. It seems that everyone here has said it to be no risk, you can not catch it like a cold or like germs on a door handle. It likes a nice warm place to live and really hates the  air, water, cold surfaces and so on. Please educate yourself in HIV transmission this is not one of them.
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You were never at risk and you've been told this repeatedly.
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because there are a couple of thigs that happened to me, back in november i was at a local community center and i went into the bathroom to wash my hands and i broke the soap dispensor and i was trying to fix it and while i was doing that i noticed there was a bunch of blood drops on the sink and some on the nozzle where the water comes out but i didnt notice any on the handle but i also didnt examine the nozzle very well, i washed my hands and i think i even spashed water into my face and stuff before i noticed the blood, then the other day i went to get into a first aide kit at my job and when i closed the kit door i saw some blood on the latch that closes the door, i dont know how long that was there or anything. I didnt have any large open bleeding cuts like everyone says you need but i had some light scrathches and stuff. Thats why i am wondering about how long HIV survives outside the body, so i can judge my risks and stuff
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HIV in a syringe for 4 weeks would not be a risk. Blood coagulates and would also cause the needle to pug and you wouldn't be able to get anything out of a syringe.
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Yeah, why do want to know this?
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sorry chris. Thanks for the correction.
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Why are you asking this question? did you have some type of exposure?
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Hiv can live in a syringe for up to 4 weeks for starters...
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HIV does not survive very well outside the body. There needs to be the right temperature and not be exposed to the air.HIV is transmitted how? SEX or IV DRUG USE not enviromentally if it was there would a lot of studies done.  
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Do you have any links or anything, how long does it survive
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can u please answer my post
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