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Stayhealthy88
Hello. when we talk about herpes transmission, what does it mean by avoiding " skin to skin contact"? Does that mean genital -genital contact? genital-hand contact?genital -oral contact? or simply body contact?
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Skin to skin means genital to genital contact, for hsv2.
For hsv1, it would mean oral to genital.
Body contact is fine.
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