contact sports can transmit herpes - it's from the direct skin on skin contact with herpes, not from sweat. typically it's hsv1 from mouths coming in contact with other body parts.
no, herpes is not blood borne. whatever doctor told you otherwise, was wrong.
Thanks for the info. Sorry but the doctor wee told me that the virus is in the blood and I ever came across a herpes infection in the Internet that states that it could be transmitted through sweat especially in gyms or close contact like martial arts and wrestling? Btw with my hand condition will it transmit if I wash my genital areas?
we call it a sexually transmitted infection because it takes that sort of naked and intimate contact to transmit it. You won't transmit it someone you aren't having sex with. it's not transmitted through sweat. It's not blood borne either so not an issue with donating blood or someone getting your blood on them.
grace