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Can Herpes Be Contracted Through Intercourse?

someone I slept with has herpes that they got from their mom during birth. Can he still have transmitted it to me during vaginal sex? He says he can only give it to people through blood to blood contact. But from what I ve read online it s transmitted during sex
Mon, 22 Aug 2016
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hii....
you read ot rightly herpes is a sexually transmittes disease..
so have blood test for herpes...
doctor consultation
and antiviral treatment..
take care next time..
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Can Herpes Be Contracted Through Intercourse?

hii.... you read ot rightly herpes is a sexually transmittes disease.. so have blood test for herpes... doctor consultation and antiviral treatment.. take care next time..