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10 Conditions You Didn’t Know Were Contagious

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Poison Ivy

If you develop a poison ivy rash after doing some weeding in your yard, it’s important to limit your physical contact with others and be diligent about wiping down shared surfaces until you’ve showered thoroughly and washed your clothes.

That’s because, as Ruiz explains, “poison ivy is an oil, so if someone has an outbreak of poison ivy and someone else touches the rash, the oil transfers over.”

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