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Clothes to hand?

If I have a outbreak and start doing the laundry (touching dirty cloths and my boxers that obviously had the outbreak in) and then my son got something in hi eye and side of the face. Without hesitation I used the same hand I was handling the dirty boxers with and wipe his eye and the side of his face. Did I just spread some small part of the virus to his eyes and face? He won't let me clean his face and I'm not going to flush his eyes obviously
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we call it a sexually transmitted infection for a reason - it takes that kind of close and intimate contact to transmit it. you aren't going to get it from clothing.

if you keep adding new questions to your original post, it is really helpful so folks know your whole story when replying :)

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