HEARTofMusic
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Can you theoretically become infected with a blood born pathogen if you become in contact with it and it lays on your skin? If you wash your skin with hot water and soap is it possible to become infected because the pores become open when you use hot water? I always understood that infection occurs with an open area, cut, body fluids, secretions. The question was posed to me by a supervisor. He maintains this can occur with using hot water. I happen to disagree.