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Expert: Kristen Brannock, MPH - 8/31/2006


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I was splashed in the eye after doing an eye irrigation no visble blood was seen but gravel was embedded in the eye.The source patient was negative and so was my baseline.But now I have alow grade fever and little dots that look like blood under the skin.It been 3 weeks post expousure.Do these sound like symptons and was my risk low. Thanks, scares nurse.

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If the patient was negative, then there is no way you could have been infected...unless the patient was only recently infected. I dont think you need to worry about HIV...just see a doctor about your eye- maybe it is an infection...but I dont think it is HIV. Don't worry!

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Kristen Brannock, MPH

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I can answer questions concerning HIV infection and AIDS. This includes ways it can and cannot be transmitted, how it is treated, how it affects the body and methods to protect yourself. I can also answer questions concerning safer sex and contraception.

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I trained with the Red Cross to become an HIV/AIDS counselor and was a member of CARES- Carolina AIDS Resource Education Service in college. I have an MPH in Health Behavior and Health Education and conduct research in the field of HIV prevention. I also take continuing education courses in HIV/STI prevention periodically.

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Master of Public Health Health Behavior and Health Education UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (formerly UNC-CH School of Public Health)

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