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Blizzard will raffle off a human-blood-infused PC if Diablo IV players donate 666 quarts (www.engadget.com)

submitted 11 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Katzastrophe@feddit.de 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

New fear unlocked: Somehow getting a blood transferable disease from working on my pc

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

More likely than not, any BBP would die before transferring to you through an open wound months later. HIV can only survive outside the body for minutes. Not sure how long Hep C lasts, but I can't imagine it would be longer than a few days at most.

[–] Horsey@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

6 weeks:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969546/

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago

Gross, but I don't imagine anyone would be doing a fluid swap before the one year mark (normally, without blood)