How exactly does herpes work?

Why do people state you can't get herpes from sleeping in someone bed who have herpes or from touching someone bath towel or wear someone pants? However, its be documented that sometimes wrestlers who are wearing clothes can get herpes from someone they wrestle with who are also in clothed, how can this be?

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Answer:
I think if your going to give advice you better get your info straight,look your questions up in a real med book. Direct contact is correct and viruses can live longer an a second-if conditions are correct,viruses can live a lot longer which then falls under the clothing contact. again the conditions have to be correct-moisture/temps/time and then the contact area that these items will come in contact with.
Example: you shower and transfer the virus to the towel,warm,moist and short period of time goes by,towels hanging in the loo victim washes face and dries with virus towel across eye area/mouth area=virus transfer complete. But you must remember the skin must be open or should I state more porous like the mouth,eyes,genitals area for the virus to enter the body/skin.
I've also read that nurses have gotten it on their fingers because of the exposed skin contact again time on skin/cuts in the skin. Not to say all nurses have this,but just an example of contact with virus.
It needs a way into the body,thru any of the weaker points of entry-soft tissue.

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Herpes is usually passed when you have skin to skin contact with an open herpes sore or blister, to a mucous membrane of the body usually places such as the mouth, eyes, nose or genitals.
Herpes doesn't last for more then second on objects which is why people state that you can't get it from towels, sharing some ones bed who has herpes (but not having sex with them), or wearing some ones pants.
Wrestlers usually get herpes when they come into contact with some one that has a cold sore. They aren't always clothed either. Since their bodies are wet from sweat when they wrestle, they can have herpes passed on to places such as their backs or leg if they wrestle with some one who has an out break of cold sores.

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herpes is a virus.. its inside the blood and fluid of an individual.. the reason wrestlers have a slight chance is because they’re constantly in close contact with the other person.. sweating and all that.. viruses cant survive or flourish outside of the human body so the only way that they can be transmitted from one person to another is by breaks in the skin or open sores that come into contact with another persons body or open surface

there’s also 2 different kinds of herpes simplex virus (HSV)

HSV 1 - this is the type in your mouth and sometimes on genital area and also is the most common form
HSV 2 - this is kind is only in genital area and