/sci/ - Science & Math

theoretically yes, but it's not very likely. who even touches phones to their mouths to that extent?

Theoretically yes

herpes survives for maybe a few seconds/minutes outside body, but even so, you would need a good dose to catch it.

anyway, 50% of people have had HSV-1 and 16% have HSV-2

so you've probably already had it from when your mom/aunt/sister kissed you as a baby

Not unless someone with herpes touched the phone first

>>4618315
>so you've probably already had it from when your mom/aunt/sister kissed you as a baby
That reminds me, I used to wonder if I have herpes because most people supposedly do but I have never had any symptoms in my life.

the transmission rate for kissing an asymptomatic shedder is something like 2-3% iirc

not that great but not insignificant ...

i would have to believe that getting it from a cell phone is much lower, unless both of you are licking the mouth piece

>>4618323
it's mostly asymptomatic like epstein barr virus and a few others in the herpes family

but they live in your dna and then come back and bite you in the ass when you're old or immune compromised

our junk dna is mostly ancient viruses in a lysogenic cycle that never goes lytic

>>4618329
>but they live in your dna

/sci/ can't into soft sciences

>>4618343
learn to lysogenesis

>>4618343
last para refers to herpes

>>4618343
last para refers to herpes

http://www.everythingbio.com/glos/definition.php?word=lysogenic+cycle

>>4618332
no. our dna is definitely 8% dead retrovirus, 42% is retrotransposons that could be of viral origin. maybe.

>>4618351
>>4618358
dumbing down lysogenisis and saying that a virus lives in your dna is buttfucking retarded and only leads to misconceptions

i sometimes wonder who is worse at explaining concepts, physicists or biologists

>>4618377
>physicists or biologists
Economists.

>>4618377
>mad coz didn't know about lysogenesis until today

>>4618377
A virus pretty much IS its genetic info. And that info resides in your own genome.