1. I have heard that mucus is another way that the virus can spread; is there any risk for touching my nose then touching things or sneezing into the air, on people, or on objects?
No, this is a skin to skin (or mucous membrane to mucous membrane)
2. Contact of others with my blood, pus, saliva, etc.
This is a trickier one because saliva could carry virus from oral HSV 1 so if you kiss someone and have oral infection, saliva might be a possible method of transmission
3. Accidentally getting saliva on people while talking.
no – not enough volume
4. I have heard that sometimes the virus can get into one’s fingers; what are the chances of this, and does this pose a possible risk for masturbating a girl during a sexual encounter?
If you have herpetic whittled, which are lesions on the hands, you could transmit it to a partner while masturbating her if there is a lesion present.
5. What is the risk, of transmitting HSV-1 through kissing?
We don’t have statistics on HSV 1 transmission with kissing, sorry
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a. What about kissing someone’s eyes?
I think that is unlikely but again, we have no statistics on this.
b. What about performing oral sex on a female?
If you have oral infection with HSV 1 you can transmit that virus from your mouth to the genitals of another person.
6. For most of the activities I asked about, you said there was ‘no risk,’ however, for Jiu Jitsu you said “no real risk”. Assuming I do not have an active cold sore (I have never had one as far as I know), what is the risk here, how small is it, and what are the factors that make this activity have some very small risk whereas the other activities did not have any risk?
If you do not have a cold sore, I am not worried about transmission in this way.
7. You said: “I hope you can stick to believing reasonable risks though I would guess that this is a theme you’ve encountered before.”
Yes, that is exactly what I mean.
Terri