Patient's question:
Taking the child to the convenience store to buy something, there were two dried bloodstains at the entrance. Both my feet stepped on them. After buying the items, on the way home, about two hundred meters away, I changed my slippers! I want to ask if there's a possibility of getting infected with HIV.Doctor's answer:
You described stepping on dried bloodstains at the entrance of a convenience store and, after going home, changing into slippers, wondering if this could transmit HIV. Speculation: The transmission routes of HIV are: sexual contact, blood, and mother-to-child transmission. Daily contact (such as eating dinner together, washing clothes together, or using the same toilet door handles) will never lead to infection. The HIV virus becomes inactive on its own in dry blood.