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Please explain if it is true that having oral sex with someone when you have a cold sore (fever blister) will give that person genital herpes?
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There is potential: For herpes simplex virus 1 to be transmitted to genitalia. Oral sex has potential to transmit a number of sti's. Herpes simplex, hiv, hpv, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis ; hepatitis can be spread via oral sex.
Answered 3/12/2016
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