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I have a cold sore. i have a tooth brush i was using to like scrub my lips with with my bar of soap and like scrubbing off the blood from my nails from picking at it. to then use my soap and wash cloth to bathe. can i get genital herpes now?
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No risk, no worries. Self-transfer of herpes to a new body area almost never happens. People are immune or at least highly resistant to new infection, anywhere on the body, with the herpes type they already have. Nobody with oral herpes ever gives themselves genital herpes by contacting the oral outbreak and then their genital area. Don't worry about it.
Answered 12/9/2022
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