A member asked:

I get cold sores but i don't have one now been using phone/laptop all day and touched genitals can i get genital herpes from the stuff i've been using?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Hand washing needed: The Herpes virus likes warm moist places to infect. If your wash you hands religiously then there is nothing to fear from the phone/laptop as a transmitter of the virus.

Answered 9/28/2016

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