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How contagious is your herpes after having it for over a year?
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Does not change: If you have active open lesions you are never less transmissible than the first time you have it. Men generally transmit this less frequently when asymptomatic than do women who may be vaginally shedding the virus even in the absence of active lesions.
Answered 5/1/2012
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