Herpes transmission from infected clothing?

[bp1984]

I recently bought a pairs of pants online that were sold as new, but were previously owned by someone else.  A week or two after receiving the pants and trying them on, I developed many symptoms that appear to be herpes - small pimple like objects on my groin and thigh that itch here and there, soreness in my legs and buttocks, some soreness around the groin..  My question is......is it possible to have caught herpes from this pair of pants if the person i bought them from had herpes?  Is it possible they had some type of secretion from a herpes infection on the pants and  when i tried the pants on i caught it?  There's no other way (no type of skin to skin sexual contact) that I would have contracted anything in the last 9 years. My doctor suspected herpes and had me tested (IGG and IGM blood tests) and they both came back negative.  But  I was told that if i recently contracted the virus, the antibodies wouldn't show up on the blood tests yet.

Is it possible to have caught the virus if there was any kind of infected secretion on the pants?  Can the virus last that long?  I mean, it took 3 days for the pants to even get to me.  So there were at least that much time in between this person having tried them on and me having tried them on.

Thanks for any help.  

[bp1984]

thanks for your help!

[Fleetwood20]

Yes in western society HSV2 is transferred that way 99.9% of the time. HSV1 not far behind, requires rubbing face to face.

[bp1984]

Thank you fleetwood!.   So, another quick question.....is there any real way to acquire the virus other than intimate skin to skin contact?  Or is that really how it's transferred like 99.9% of the time?

[saranglaghari25]

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[Fleetwood20]

No it is I possible for herpes to transmit in this way. It is extremely unlikely that anywhere enough of the virus would transfer to clothing. Any virus that transferred would be dead in seconds upon drying. Few living things survive a US postal journey!