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If a person have herpes and they wash their clothes with other people clothes do they get herpes as well?
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No: Transmission of Herpes simplex will not occur in this manner. The virus will die during this process, and it is rarely transmitted by inanimate objects, even without the washing of the clothes.
Answered 10/15/2016
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