Thread: can a vintage/used razor be a carrier of a harmfull disease like AIDs etc

I keep some clippercide around for when i am feeling paranoid.

But if i restore a razor i'm usually not too worried about it.

Let us know when they are up Glen!

There is one that you have to worry about.... it is RAD.... Razor acquisition disorder. I caught it and found that there is no cure. Excuse me, I have to go check my ebay and see when the next one is ending.

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Aids virus cannot live outside of the body for more than a few hours. Hepatitis lives for several days.

Unless someone cuts themselves on it while they are packaging it, shipping it, or delivering it, you should be ok as there shouldn't be any viable contagions remaining.

This is just what I remember from a few years of annual OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens training.

We're trained to put on gloves and wash any bodily fluids with a 10% bleach solution, so maybe that would work.

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

There is one that you have to worry about.... it is RAD.... Razor acquisition disorder. I caught it and found that there is no cure. Excuse me, I have to go check my ebay and see when the next one is ending.

I caught that one with my very first razor. I'm learning to live with it.

Originally Posted by Miner123

I caught that one with my very first razor. I'm learning to live with it.

I've got the cure - regular vaccinations i.e. the same pathogen until you build an immunity to them. That's how I ended with hundreds of razors. Works really well.

Thank all you guys. learn a lot. share more experiences here.

Just wondering if boiling water does the trick or can these organisms survive in such temperatures.

Cheers,