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Toilet paper and blood

I took a number 2 at a public restroom today.  Little did I notice before I wiped myself was that there was a large fresh red spot on the toilet paper I've used to wipe myself.  While I don't know how fresh the thing was or whether or not it was blood, but let's assume that is is fresh blood, what are the chances that I would get infected with HIV by this incident?
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1109526 tn?1261281373
So wait, you saw the blood BEFORE you wiped and then you still wiped with it?
Or you saw the blood AFTER you wiped?
If you saw it AFTER you wiped, how do you know it didn't come from your own butt? Hemorrhoid!
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480448 tn?1426948538
LOL lizzie...was thinking the same thing.

NO risk at all, HIV is not transmitted in this manner.
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186166 tn?1385259382
well what i want to know is how you saw if AFTER you wiped ? ? ?

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AS Vance had stated, the risk is absolutely ZERO.

-JC-
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Zero, HIV is not passed from enviromental surfaces to start, also it is deactivated shortly after exposed to outside of the body elements.
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