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Can hiv virus survive in normal saline used in cleaning instruments during surgery? And can hiv pass through cuts that are not bleeding but causes the individual pain?
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Hiv virus can survive normal saline. Though hiv virus rarely survive outside body. It survive in body fluids. For cleaning instruments in surgery we use alcohol or formalin. So very low risk of transmission via surgery. Hiv don't transmit via minor abrasion on skin.
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