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Can you get herpes from someone if they have no outbreak and they are taking the medicine for it?
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Possible / unlikely: Herpes virus may be shed and transmitted in the absence of visible lesions. However the risk of shedding while taking antiviral medications appropriately is very low.
Answered 1/29/2013
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