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If u have genital herpes and u grab your genitals with shorts on then touch ur earphones and then ur earphones touch ur mouth will you get infected?
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With an outbreak: you are contagious and immunosuppressed . Lesions can spread, usually by sexual secretions; however. self inoculation is also possible.
Answered 9/7/2016
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