Question 1

Can you get herpes from touching a towel that someone that has herpes but no current lesion used to dry off with?

Accepted Answer

Herpes is rarely if ever transmitted by indirect contact like this -- only by direct contact with an infected person's infected body part, like kissing and sexual contact.

Question 2

Can you get herpes from touching a handle in a port o potty and then touching your underwear?

Accepted Answer

Herpes viruses can be transmitted by direct inoculation particularly if there is a break in the skin of the recipient.   There may alternative points of view from other physicians

Question 3

Is it possible to get herpes from touching dishes that would have saliva on them from an infected person then your own genitals a few hour later? i was cleaning up and wondering the risk from such exposure?

Accepted Answer

This is a very low risk scenario, as most dishes would not be subject to saliva application.  Best practices would be that you would wash your hands after leaving the workspace, and before and after using the rest room/ wash room.

Question 4

Can i get herpes from touching vaginal secretions, not washing hand, and then masturbating with that same hand and hour later?

Accepted Answer

Herpes is rarely if ever transmitted by hand-genital contact, and certainly would not be transmissble an hour after contact. Don't worry about it.

Question 5

Can you get herpes from touching a handle in a public bathroom and then that hand touches your genitals shortly after while wiping?

Accepted Answer

Brief, fleeting contact is never enough to transmit herpes. And there never would be enough virus on a handle or door knob anyway. Herpes is NEVER transmitted by contact with contaminated objects. Even in the households of infected people, sharing kitchens, bathrooms, drinking glasses, towels etc, nobody else ever gets it except by kissing or sexual exposure. So no worries at all!

Question 6

If a female has herpes and is not having an out break and she has protected sex can he still get it? also can it be spread by fluids down there from touching a female then the male area?

Accepted Answer

Heres is contagious where one gets infected. If one is infected ion the  labia or other parts of the perineum than a condom on the male partner will not protect him from her viral shedding. There is not test to tell us where one is contagious unless we know where your sores are at with a break out. 

All sexually active couples should now know their herpes status.  Medication may lower the risk.

Question 7

Can u get herpes from a toilet seat, touching a sink or other object that a infected person touched after touching their infection?

Accepted Answer

No you can not get herpes from toilet or by using public bathroom.

Question 8

Can you get herpes from sharing a plate, or someone touching their cold sore and then ur pizza and then you eating it?

Accepted Answer

It would be highly unlikely. Usually from skin to skin contact.

Question 9

Is it possible for someone to get genital herpes on their hands by touching someone's butt who has herpes?

Accepted Answer

In theory this could happen, in reality it never does. Almost every sexually active person has hand contact with their partners' genital and anal areas, but nobody ever gets herpes of the fingers. Don't worry about it.

Question 10

Can you get genital herpes by touching inanimate objects someone with a cold sore has touched and then touching yourself after?

Accepted Answer

You have to have direct contact with another cold sore or genial herpes in the genital area in order to contract herpes of any kind in the genital area

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Can you get herpes from touching a towel that someone that has herpes but no current lesion used to dry off with?

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Can you get herpes from touching a handle in a port o potty and then touching your underwear?

Is it possible to get herpes from touching dishes that would have saliva on them from an infected person then your own genitals a few hour later? i was cleaning up and wondering the risk from such exposure?

Can i get herpes from touching vaginal secretions, not washing hand, and then masturbating with that same hand and hour later?

Can you get herpes from touching a handle in a public bathroom and then that hand touches your genitals shortly after while wiping?

If a female has herpes and is not having an out break and she has protected sex can he still get it? also can it be spread by fluids down there from touching a female then the male area?

Can u get herpes from a toilet seat, touching a sink or other object that a infected person touched after touching their infection?

Can you get herpes from sharing a plate, or someone touching their cold sore and then ur pizza and then you eating it?

Is it possible for someone to get genital herpes on their hands by touching someone's butt who has herpes?

Can you get genital herpes by touching inanimate objects someone with a cold sore has touched and then touching yourself after?

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