You can't get genital herpes from sharing sheets. You can get genital herpes from skin-to-skin contact with someone who is infected.
If the person you are in bed with has herpes, you can catch it from sharing a bed.
You can't get herpes by sharing soap.You will not catch herpes from a bar of soap.No, the herpes virus quickly dies outside the body.No because herpes, unlike most common STD's, is a virus, meaning it can not survive like a bacteria when exposed to the open
Hsv -1 (herpes simplex virus) can be transmitted through the sharing of saliva/kissing. hsv -2 is transmitted through sexual contact.
If the sores are on, in, or around the person's mouth, yes.
Yes.
No, it is not possible for the virus that causes herpes to "jump" from a hairbrush or your hair to your mouth or genitals; both are mucous membranes, which is the only two places that herpes can infect.
Depends on the amount of saliva on the cigarette, but yes.
You can't get chlamydia from sitting right behind an infected person. Chlamydia is spread by sexual contact with someone who's infected. You can get it from oral, anal, or vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; or birth to an infected woman.
the herpes virus, which causes cold sores, and dermatitis.
No that is unlikely to happen. If you used it with in seconds of some one with break out of herpes using it, then there is a small chance of getting it. There would be an even smaller risk of doing that when the person didn't have any signs of a break out. Herpes doesn't last for more then a few seconds on obects or in fluids.
It's possible but not likely to happen. You would have to use the chap stick directly with in seconds after some one with a vsible cold sore used it. Herpes doesn't like to live for long periods of time on objects.
The chance is very small. Once herpes hits air the virus will die almost instantly. Herpes isn't likely to rub on the surface of a towel, toilet, clothing or other items. If the herpes virus happened to rub on the surface of an item the virus would die before a person came in contact with the virus. Some studies report herpes could spread by sharing a drink but the chance is almost non existent. You can get genital herpes through genital-genital contact or genital-oral contact with someone who has herpes infection. The virus is most easily spread through contact with open sores. But you also can get the virus from skin that does not appear to have a sore. You can become infected with the herpes virus without having intercourse.