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Are cold sores harder to catch as an adult?
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Already infected: By the time you're an adult, you've probably already been exposed to hsv-1, the virus that causes cold sores, and you can't 'catch' it again. The cold sores you develop are due to your own latent infection, not to a new exposure.
Answered 8/5/2017
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