{"id":199,"date":"2007-10-15T12:42:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T11:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=199"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:23","slug":"is-there-and-hiv-risk-from-blood-on-cotton-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/199","title":{"rendered":"Is there and HIV risk from blood on cotton balls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. HIV is not infectious in spilt blood &#8211; usually within minutes of the blood leaving the body. Even if this patient had HIV, you could not have caught it.<\/p>\n<p>Other infections, including hepatitis C, can remain infectious for longer. This is something you should speak to your empolyer about.<\/p>\n<p>Clinics and hospitals should heve proper hygiene and safety practices that ensure that spilt blood is not a risk for employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work in a medical office and the trash had cotton balls that were bloody. Then after that I realized I had blood in my hands I had some small cuts in my hands. I am worried I could catch HIV. The cotton had being in the trash for about 3hrs. Could I be at risk of something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24616,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/24616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}