Okay here goes...
I am a female.
I have been paranoid about herpes for a while now just because of my last real sexual encounter which I think may be low risk. However, because of this paranoia, I have begun washing myself "downstairs" more often and "looking" down there to see if I notice anything weird.
I was at a close family member's house recently when they were out of town and I washed my hands a million times to make sure they were clean. Each time I washed my hands I used their hand towel next to the sink which they use all the time. I specifically remember that I washed my hands, dried them on the hand towel, then immediately went into the shower (without getting much more water on my hands) and used a body wash that is not antibacterial to wash myself "downstairs." (I didn't realize the body wash was not antibacterial.)
I didn't think anything of this until I noticed the next day a bottle of Valtrex in their medicine cabinet.
My main question is: Is it possible that there could have been herpes virus on the hand towel that got on my hands, and then gotten to my genitals when I rubbed the non-antibacterial body wash on and washed my genital area in the shower?
Also, I have cuts on my hands because they are really dry. Could there have been herpes on the hand towel that could have gotten into those cuts when I dried my hands?
P.S. They left for their trip that morning, and I got there that afternoon.
Thank you in advance.