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Can you std from unwashed hands that touched personal items of a person who might have had an std. unwashed hands might have touched gentials or mouth?
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Unlikely...: Experience has proved that being exposed to infective agent does not mean one will contract it and contracting it does not mean one will develop its related disease, reflecting personal strength of natural barriers-skin & mucosa as well as of humoral immune defense ability. Hence, your described scenario should pose a next-to-zero odd to develop STD. Nonetheless, always be on guard to avoid ...
Answered 5/8/2016
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