beaker24

Herpes is not transmitted by bodily fluids, but by skin to skin contact. It is a mistake to think of it in the same way as HIV, for example, because the viruses tend to pass differently. A condom, used correctly, offers something like 99% protection against HIV because HIV lives in bodily fluids like blood and sexual fluids. Condoms offer significantly less protection from herpes because it is the skin to skin contact which passes the virus - not the sexual fluid.

You should be more concerned about who comes into contact with areas where you have the virus, and certainly don't let anyone come into contact with your open sores. The above poster is right that it is the antibodies to the virus, not the virus itself, which lurk in the blood.