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Please help me, I am really scared with the incident actually trash collector came to collect the trash while handling over the trash polythene which was normal thin black plastic and lancent was there in the bottom corner of the plastic and it may pierce out and scratched and then I realized my ring fell into the poly bag and I took the bag back from him and while searching the ring I got scratched from the lancet. please do help me I am really scared of this incident.
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Hiv will not be transmitted from dried blood on a lancet and you need not worry as the virus cannot live in outside weather.
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