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I work as a massage therapist and want to know if you can contract any diseases through massage? im mainly asking about hepatitis, hiv, herpes?
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Universal precaution: The HIV and hepatitis b and c are blood borne in transmission, you would have to be exposed to blood and would have to be in an open wound very unlikely in massage but wearing gloves and hand hygiene, vaccination for b is recommended. Hepatitis a is oral fecal, hand hygiene is key, herpes virus can get on skin and you rub your eyes can be transmitted passively, hand hygiene is also the answer.
Answered 4/21/2019
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herpes: If you come in contact with a sore. Hiv is spread through transfer of bodily fluids.
Answered 4/21/2019
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