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If you touch the herpes infected area with underwear on and then you wash your hands with soap then you touch your face will you still get infected?
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No risk, no worry: Even if you touch a genital herpes outbreak then immediately touch your face, you would not get a facial infection. This happens sometimes during the very first herpes infection, but even that is rare; and it almost never happens in people with recurrent herpes. Even in initial infeciton, the very indirect exposure described here is zero risk. Also, soap instantaneously kills the herpes virus.
Answered 6/17/2019
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