 [ Symptoms ] can you contract herpes from some one if they double dip in a communal dish  i shared a dipping sauce with someone that has genital herpes they double dipped their food into the sauce and i continued to share the sauce should i be worried about contracting the virus [ Disease ] you said the person has genital herpes so the answer would be most certainly not unless heshe dipped hisher genitals into the sauce even then it probably would not be a problem it takes intimate contact to contract herpes