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Is it true that you may infect your partner with genital herpes even if you had no outbreaks ever?
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Unfortunately yes: Herpes infection can indeed transmit even if you have no outbreaks because some of the outbreaks are "silent" or "invisible".
Answered 1/16/2016
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