Dr. Stephanie Bialek

No, says Stephanie Bialek, M.D., an infectious disease expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.If your man has cold sores, warts, or hepatitis B or C (which can lead to harmful liver diseases), the virus could be living in his razor.Then when you use it, the viral villains can invade your bloodstream through microscopic nicks from shaving, says Dr. Bialek.

,The remarkable decline in hepatitis A incidence among American Indians and Alaska Natives coincident with increasing hepatitis A vaccination coverage indicates that there has been a fundamental alteration in hepatitis A epidemiology in [these] communities,, the study,s authors wrote. [From: ,Hepatitis A Incidence and Hepatitis A Vaccination among American Indians and Alaska Natives, 1990-2001., Contact: Stephanie Bialek, Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, zqg7@cdc.gov.]

Contact: Stephanie Bialek, Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, zqg7@cdc.gov.]