HIV transmission from a shared test tube?
Hello sir/mam,
I once worked for the Indian Red Cross Society under which we conducted many blood donation camps in colleges. In the camp, blood HB level tests were done for ladies before blood donation. I also went through the test. The event which I fear is; the nurse who was doing the test pricked my finger and kept my finger with a blood drop on the tip of the test tube and tested my hb level . She used the same test tube for most of the people who stood before me for the test. She wiped the test tube with cotton dipped in some solution. I fear that if the person before me was hiv infected, is there any possibility for me to get hiv infection? The place where i kept my finger on test tube there was no blood. Please clarify my doubt? Could I be infected?