http://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV---P...k/show/2001737
Theoretically possible but very, very unlikely.
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Welcome to the forum. Thanks for your question.
Using your terminology, you are indeed overreacting. HIV is not as easily transmitted as you seem to think. People hear "transmitted by contact with blood" and assume that even trivial contact with blood is sufficient. It is not. Nobody in the world -- not a single person -- is known to have caught HIV by getting nicked or cut in the way you were. Even if a previous customer had been cut with the same scissors, the virus does not survive drying of blood and exposure to air. Without a deep cut with an instrument visibly contaminated with HIV infected blood, the risk is zero.
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