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HIV Prevention and Testing => Do I Have HIV? => Topic started by: rasseb on November 04, 2007, 05:30:12 am

Title: ballpoint pen
Post by: rasseb on November 04, 2007, 05:30:12 am

Can hepatitis b,c or hiv get on the tip of a ballpoint pen or into the ink when writing an autograph on another's arm with a ballpoint pen and pressing too hard so that a possible blooddrop could get on the pen, can I then get it when I receive an autograph on my arm with same pen? I only remember the girl saying ouch, I dont think there was any blood at all but what it? Is it at all possible to get any of the blood diseases from a pinprick or a penprick? Please ease my mind I dont want to go through testing..

Title: Re: ballpoint pen
Post by: Matty the Damned on November 04, 2007, 05:35:24 am

No this is not a risk situation in terms of HIV infection. As for other blood borne diseases, I would advise you to talk your doctor. We are an HIV specific website.

Please take the time to read our Welcome Thread (http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=220.0) and follow the links to our Lessons to learn more about how HIV is and is not transmitted.

You do not need to test for HIV as a result of what you describe.

MtD