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Hello sir. Can HIV get through dry infected blood because my finger cut by knife and more blood exit from my body during stoping blood we had used a little cloth but in the cloth dry blood was also present.
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Dr. Shashank Agrawalyrs exp
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Dont worry. You wont get infected.
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Hi. Hiv is a weak virus so the chances for it to enter your cut wound will be very low. But the chances are still present if the dried blood on the cloth was hiv infected blood. The best way will be to get an hiv test and rule it out.
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