I went to a barber shop yesterday and he applied potassium alum stone on my cuts. The cut was tiny but I am worried about the alum was used on other costumers as well. So I am scared about hepatitis c and not hepatitis b because I had been vaccinated in the childhood for hepatitis b.so,what r the changes of getting hepatitis b in this situation.

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