How is herpes type one spread?!


Question: how is herpes type one spread?
if she/he used a pillow and i sprayed it with bactirial killing germs and left it there to dry would i get it if i used the pillow?

any form, type, shape that it can spread i would like to know.
i just know that you can transfer it by kissing, and eating/ drinking from the same stuff.

anything else?
thanks in advance.


Answers: how is herpes type one spread?
if she/he used a pillow and i sprayed it with bactirial killing germs and left it there to dry would i get it if i used the pillow?

any form, type, shape that it can spread i would like to know.
i just know that you can transfer it by kissing, and eating/ drinking from the same stuff.

anything else?
thanks in advance.

If you are talking about oral herpes type 1, hsv-1, it can ONLY be spread through direct skin to skin contact with her lips, not through inanimate objects.

Herpes is a very fragile virus, and only survives a short time outside the body - in normal conditions, seconds to a couple of minutes, even under damp and warm conditions, about an hour, and not in sufficient quantities to infect anyone. Think about it, one in three women have genital herpes, so you are often using a toilet after one, yet you don't catch it, it just doesn't happen.

Plus, the virus needs to come into contact with an area of your skin it can manage to penetrate - abraded/cut skin or mucous membrane - e.g. lips or genitals - before it can enter your body.

So, you can spread it from kissing lip tp lip, and through the person with the oral herpes giving you oral sex - in which case you would get genital hsv-1. If you kissed them, you could only get oral hsv-1, and not genital.

Anyway, oral herpes is only infectious for a small fraction of the time when a cold sore is not present, 5-10%. So you could be kissing someone for years and not catch it. My boyfriend has oral herpes, and I kissed him often over 7 years without catching it. When I did catch it, it was genitally through him giving me oral sex, not on the mouth.

And herpes is a virus, not a bacteria.





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