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by jagger27 1596 days ago
> A milliliter seems like actually a lot of blood to get into someone else

1 cm^3 is indeed pretty big. That’s 1,000 little millimetre cubes, and we can detect as few as 50 virions in that space!

I will point out though that 1 ml is low for semen (more like 2.5 ml or more).