For most women, the worst thing that’s happened at a nail salon is that they’ve chosen a polish color they end up regretting — or maybe they’ve had their nails clipped a little too close.
But for one 22-year-old woman in Brazil a manicure turned potentially deadly: Getting her nails done may have given her HIV.
Doctors say the case, detailed in a medical journal, has revealed a new form of transmission for the virus.
However the researchers warned that transmission through shared manicure equipment is a ‘very rare event’ and the risks of infection from new sources are still very low.
When diagnosed, the woman was found to have advanced HIV, according to the report in the journal AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.
Blood analysis suggested the she contracted the virus around ten years ago.
Dr Brian Foley, of the HIV Sequence Database at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, said the case should not make people scared of contact with people with the virus, as the risk of infection is very low.
The usual risk factors for acquiring this virus are having sex without a condom or being passed on by sharing infected needles and other injecting equipment,
It can also be and from an HIV-positive mother to her child during pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.
This is a highly unusual case. It is often very difficult to be certain as to the source of an HIV infection – especially one that happened over a decade ago – and it is hard to imagine how HIV could be caught from manicure equipment.
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