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Is hand herpes contagious? if you touch objects they hand to you. no visual cuts on my hand. but they are dry. odds?
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No risk, no worry: Not contagious from such contact. Herpes is never transmitted though the environment. See reply to your other question about this.
Answered 2/12/2017
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