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Is psoriasis contagious?
My wife got psoriasis and I don’t want to get infected…
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Answers (3) to: "Is psoriasis contagious?"
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No, psoriasis is not contagious. It is not something you can "catch" or "pass on." The psoriatic lesions may not look good, but they are not infections or open wounds. People with psoriasis pose no threat to the health or safety of others.
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Psoriasis is a chronic and genetic disease and has nothing to do with infections. But Hey, don't believe me, believe your wife :-)
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Psoriasis itself, as was written above, isn't contagious, i.e. if someone has psoriasis he or she can't transmit it to you. However, there is a form of psoriasis called psoriasis guttate that is associated with infection of the throat by a bacterium called streptococcus (which is contagious), so in some way it is contagious.
You may read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoriasis#Types_of_psor...
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