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About contaminated blood
Is an large amount of fresh, contaminated blood infectious? Or it ceases to be infectious the moment it leaves the patient's body? Can HIV survive in such blood?
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Amount of free floating virus particles in body fluids.
An infected persons Viral Load
One more question. What does "VL" mean? I have googled it but I not sure what it means.
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Not if it's a small amount of blood and it would also depend on the VL of the infected person.
Thanks. If that blood coagulates in air, will it still be infectious?
There more blood there is the longer it will take to become inactive.
No. I am just curious about the whether the viruses can survive in that blood. Will they die within minutes?And sorry for that grammatical mistake. I mean "a large amount of fresh blood".
If it gets into your bloodstream very quickly it can be.
did you have an exposure?
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