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Can you get herpes from touching a towel that someone that has herpes but no current lesion used to dry off with?
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Nope: Herpes is rarely if ever transmitted by indirect contact like this -- only by direct contact with an infected person's infected body part, like kissing and sexual contact.
Answered 8/23/2017
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