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How are crabs passed on?
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Direct skin contact: Should you meet these creatures, have you and the special person or persons in your life all wash down with an appropriate total-body shampoo and leave it on for the appropriate length of time. There's no long-term danger.
Answered 5/24/2013
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Transmission : Crabs (pubic lice) is usually transmitted through direct contact during sexual activity. There can also be vector transmission via contaminated towels, sheets or clothes.
Answered 5/24/2013
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Is it possible get crabs (pubic lice) from someone who doesn't think she has them?
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Straight up question , can you get crabs (pubic lice) from someone who doesn't have them?
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