Scab on head? can i get HIV?!


Question: Scab on head? can i get HIV?
Let's say someone is playing with my hair and they have a cut in their hand and I have a small scab in my skull where my hair is at. Can I get hiv? Thanks

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There has been exactyly one documented case EVER of wound-to-wound HIV transmission, and it involved two people who both had fresh, deep knife wounds.

You are at no risk.

The only ways you can get HIV are by having sex with or sharing needles/syringes with someone who's already infected.

I suggest you talk to someone such as a doctor, school nurse, or counsellor about your obvious anxiety about this.

http://www.eatg.org/eatg/Global-HIV-News…



No.

The scab acts as a barrier.

To even have the slightest chance of being infected with HIV, you have to get his blood to mix with your blood. So, if he was bleeding, and he rubs his blood into an open bleeding cut on you, then there's a chance - a slim one - that you could get HIV (assuming he's HIV+ in the first place.)



Well really that depends on if that person is infected with HIV themselves. I believe that if there is dry blood than no, once the HIV virus is airborne it becomes non infectious. However if there is fresh blood, and it was infected with the HIV virus then perhaps there might be a chance. But if not I would not worry about it. However if you are that concerned than get yourself checked out.



That is a highly theoretical risk which is barely greater than zero.

But yes, it is blood on blood (though dried) so it is possibility however remote.



Its never safe to rub an open wound with another. yes its very possible. its not likely to happen but its possible



yes




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