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Can you get hpv (genital hpv) from touching inanimate objects and then your genitals?

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No: Genital HPV has rather strict living requirements that mean it will die almost immediately when exposed to air/drying or other environmental factors outside the body. That makes transmission through the described process impossible.

Answered 1/7/2019

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