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Usually a person will get herpes of the eye because they touch an oral herpes lesion (a cold sore) and then touch their eye without washing. It turns out our grandmothers' advice to keep our hands away from eyes, nose, and mouth was correct.
If you touch an infected area, then touch your eye, then the eye may be infected.

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