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Can you spread herpes through your clothes or scratching through your clothes?
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Possible: If you break blisters by scratching, and the fluid, which is rich in virus particles, gets on your fingers, you can spread it to other open areas of your body or someone else's ( oral or genital mucosa, eyes, or broken skin ).
Answered 2/10/2016
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