Can you get herpes from sitting on a toilet seat?

Transmission of the herpes virus usually occurs through vaginal, anal or oral to genital sexual contact. Inanimate objects such as a toilet seat are unlikely to cause any transmission of the virus.

The herpes virus is very fragile and highly sensitive to environmental conditions. As such, it cannot survive for long periods of time outside the body.

Can you get herpes from using a hot tub or swimming pool with someone who has herpes?

Is there any connection between herpes and HIV?

Can I breastfeed if I have a herpes outbreak?

I don’t have any symptoms of herpes, therefore I don’t have herpes.

Can one classify Herpes based on the area in which it develops?

I’ve never had herpes but I noticed my daughter/son has just developed a cold sore. How is this poss...

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