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Can you get herpes from cheek kisses? my grandma whos hsv1 positive has it and would give me cheek kisses last year. also i had a pen sore shaped inside my hard palate that lasted a day or 2 and disappeared randomly w/o medication, was it from her?
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getting it this way is rare. Best is to have check you out if you think you had a lesion.
Answered 11/1/2022
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At your age it more than likely that you have already been infected with HSV 1. Visit this site for info: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/herpes-simplex-virus#:~:text=An%20estimated%203.7%20billion%20people,that%20can%20recur%20over%20time.
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