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How fast the Hepatitis B and C Virus Spreads?

Hi, Guys!

I've been searching this question since many days but unable to find the answer.

I wanna ask question by giving an example

Once a day I went to Hair cutter shop where the man was shaving of different people too. I said him to do my face shave using razor. He used old razor which he used on different people. Suddenly I got a little cut on my face due to its sharpness and blood came out.

Now question is that suppose if there was a B or C virus on that Razor and touched with my blood, so in how much time this virus reached in my body? Some say right in just 1 minute, some say it takes one or two days to go into body. So I'm in confusion in how much time this virus come in body?

Regards,

Happpy

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If hep c infected blood entered your blood stream then it entered your blood stream. The question then is if that happened are you going to develop an infection.

If you had hep c infected blood enter your blood stream you maybe at risk of becoming infected.

The question of time is irrelevant
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