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A "friend" that I got into a fight with bit me. He was known to frequent brothels.


I'm not saying you're lying...but this is very hard to believe. Hepatitis C passes through blood-based contact almost exclusively (not saliva). There have only been a handful of cases through human bites.[1]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7811879


I don't really have anything to prove, this is a throwaway after all. It's certainly something I wouldn't announce publicly.

That being said, it was a pretty bloody fight.


If he was making the whole thing up, why wouldn't he have picked the most believable explanation?


2bthrowaway is not being accused of making things up. You can not know that you have Hep C for years after you caught it, and your best guess of when you did is usually just that.


Very true. Getting annual STD tests helps get it down to a time frame as to when you go it.




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