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Cold sore transmission from sharing food on a cut lip
I visited family last week and recently one of them has an active cold sore outbreak. While living together I probably used cups or silverware after her and we also ate together and shared food from the same plates. I'm concerned that the fork touched her mouth area and then got the virus into the plate of food which I ate from. I have had really chapped lips lately and accidentally bit my lip making in an open wound that would be easy for a virus to enter. I have seen a lot of answers say that sharing food with oral HSV is not a risk but am I at risk if I happened to have a cut and broken skip on my lip when it happened?
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Herpes spreads by oral, vaginal and anal sex.
Herpes sores blister, then burst, scab and heal.
STIs are the most common cause of genital sores.
Millions of people are diagnosed with STDs in the U.S. each year.
STDs can't be transmitted by casual contact, like hugging or touching.
Syphilis is an STD that is transmitted by oral, genital and anal sex.
