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DRIED BLOOD ON TOWEL CAME INTO CONTACT WITH FRESH CUT

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I went to the barbershop last week, the barber accidentally cut on my neck so i went up stairs to clean my neck at the barbershop up there is a room for prostitutes so they gave me the towel i cleaned my neck with towel i saw the towel with dried blood which may also be  menstruation blood so my question is WHAT IF THE DRIED MENSTRUATION BLOOD ON TOWEL CAME INTO CONTACT WITH MY FRESH CUTS THEY WERE 3 or 4 FRESH CUTS ( any std risk here?) PLEASE I NEED YOU ANSWERS
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Thank you so much for the answer, one last question what if  dried  menstruation  blood was 5 or 10 minutes old on towel and came into contact  with my fresh cuts which caused by blade or razor blade the cuts were 3 or 4 and they were bleeding and came contact with menstruation  dried blood on towel still no risk here of any std? Please answer my question
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Why is there dried period blood on towels? Women don't bleed on towels - we use tampons or pads. I promise you there was no period blood on the towels.

And period blood isn't different than any other blood - it's not more infectious for anything.

As GuitarRox said, once blood is exposed to air, it's not infectious. In order for someone else's blood to be infectious to you, you'd have to have huge, gaping wounds and a large amount of blood would have to get in those gaping wounds. That's not what happened here.

YOU ARE FINE, and had no risk.

You should talk to someone about your anxiety, though. These fears aren't rational. If STDs or HIV were this easy to get, every single person would have them.
Okay, Thank you so much, so once  someone’s blood it’s exposed to air ( 5 mins or 10 mins old) so it can’t do anything, coming contact into my fresh cuts/wounds bleeding (my cut was 1cm or little less than 1 cm ) so no risk of any std right and I should move on?
First - there was no menstrual blood on the towel. Women don't wipe their menstrual blood on towels, and we sure don't leave any of our menstrual blood just laying around on things around.

This is an irrational thought process.

And menstrual blood is no different than any other blood.

If you came into contact with blood on a towel, there would be no risk. Your cuts were too small.

Seriously, you can move on from this.
Thank you so much, may god bless you, you are doin such a great job
And i  am really sorry for the last question i won’t ask again, it can be possible menstruation blood on towel because they were prostitutes but I don’t care now whether it’s menstruation blood or normal as you said all are same blood, so what if my cut was also 3 cm big I don’t remember and it was fresh bleeding contact into towel was almost 60% with blood I couldn’t see properly the light was dark still no risk ? Please reply my last question
You would have to have a HUGE, GAPING wound in order for you to be infected with anything. No matter how much blood there was on the towel, your cut wasn't big enough.

It was also dried blood, meaning HIV would have died already.

You also don't know that anyone who used it has HIV.

And if you got a 3cm cut from a barber who can't provide care for the clients he injures, operates below some sort of hangout for prostitutes where they leave towels with dried blood, and then sends his clients upstairs to tend to their own wounds, you need a new barber like yesterday.
Thank you so much , yes i will find a new barber now, my anxiety was killing me, now i feel much better and i will move on.
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So, the first thing to do is calm down.  The all caps isn't necessary.  What exactly are you freaking out about. STD risks?  From A. the cut on the neck from barber and B. the towel they gave you to clean it being that used by prostitutes and it had menstrual blood on it?  A towel can not give you an STD.  If you are worried about something like HIV, this is not how hiv is transmitted.  HIV is very fragile and is only transmitted via unprotected vaginal or anal sex or sharing IV drug needles.  Not a risk in any way.  This would also include the blade that cut you. You can not get HIV from objects.  Air inactivates the virus, including on something sharp that cuts you.  So, other std's.  no.  You will not get an std from either a blade or a towel. Are you worried about hepatitis?  This would not be a common way to get that as barber's sterilize their blades and a towel with dried blood would be outside usual forms of transmission. So, you really need to keep this experience in perspective and that dried blood means it was exposed to air and not going to do anything to you.  
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