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A member asked:
If you and your partner have sex it is possible for you to get herpes and him not to?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
Don't understand: I don't think i follow your question. You can't spontaneously get herpes, one of the two partners would have had to already be infected from someone else.
Answered 3/31/2014
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