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Please Help Regarding Risk of HIV Transmission (urgent)

Dear Doctors,
Please help me, i want to ask whether i got infected by HIV or not. At the afternoon, I attended social meeting with my hobby community. Most of us in that event bought the same brand bottled mineral water at that time since there is one shop only near that area. During that time i did not notice and accidentally drink the wrong bottled water of someone in the table (since most of bottle were put in the table). When i drank that wrong bottled water, my mouth and lip already had wound/ sore and sore throat at that time. Since in that event, there was someone infected with HIV+ and i accidentally drink that bottled water that owned by that HIV+ person. I'm afraid that person might have bleeding into that water before i accidentally drink those bottled water that i told before with my open wound in mouth, lip and i'm also have sore throat too at that time. Also, i don't know whether i drank that wrong water immediately after that HIV+ person drink it first. But, i think it might be drink immediately by me after that HIV+ person drink too at that time.


Does that situation can make you get HIV? (because when i searched into the google, it didn't tell exactly the same situation that i have and the answers mostly too vague itself)
Also, i don't know whether i drank that wrong water immediately after that HIV+ person drink it first. But, i think it might be drink immediately by me after that HIV+ person drink too at that time.

Pls help me, i am quite scared right now about my condition due to that situation happened to me.

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If you read above, your question was answered when it was said you had no risk at all.  No risk means no HIV. You need to relax and move on.
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Anyone can answers my comment regarding these case, pls respond...
really need the confirmation regarding this case, bcs right now, i am still very scared whether i'm infected or not?
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Your problem is not disease it is anxiety about a disease you don't have, which is a bit of a mental health issue so you need to  see a therapist.
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This is not how HIV is spread. Even if there was blood, which is highly unlikely as it is. You would never get infected with HIV by sharing a water bottle. You could however catch any number of bacterial infections that spread very easily that way.
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However, as you can see in my post, i had open wound in my mouth and lip with sore throat too. Which i am afraid that can become the media for transmission. Does that still make me infected by HIV?
There is nothing you can add to your comments that will change the response that I already gave you.
So, it means i don't have any risk of getting HIV from the circumstance that I told right?

HIV 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. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. 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 did to be zero. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established and no extra detail that you add can make it a risk.
so @anxious, does that mean i will not get HIV even though i drank someone HIV+'s bottled water with open wound in my mouth/lips with sore throat right?
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