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HIV is a retro virus that has a very short lifespan especially when exposed to air.

For someone to acquire HIV from a toilet seat there would have to be some extremely FRESH biological matter present (semen) and the person who sits on this deposit of matter would have to have an open wound that makes direct contact with the semen.

I say semen because the concentration of the HIV disease in other bio waste is not high enough to be viable.

To sum it up......it is close to impossible to get AIDS (HIV) from a toilet seat.

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  • The HIV virus is actually a quite delicate, easily killed virus. It does not survive outside of its human carriers for more than short periods. Specifically, drying kills it. When different solutions were tested to determine what should be recommended as the universal cleanser for body fluid secretions, every solution tested(alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, iodine, betadine, Bactine,etc) were effective. Bleach was chosen since it is so cheap, ubiquitous, and safe. Unless someone just left some wet body fluid, and you had a transfer to a mucous membrane or open wound, it would be possible. It really would take quite a large innoculum (viral load) before there would be a statistically possible transfer. Health care workers have these minor exposures all the time. If it were this deadly, we all would have been gone a long time ago.
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15y ago

no only from needle or switching of bodily fluids If you lick it. No, the germs die as soon as they touch the air.It's a story one would tell when they got a disease after they had cheated on their wife or husband.Don't worry about getting herpies from a toilet seat.It's not true.

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10y ago

NO. It's very rare to get herpes from a toilet seat. Herpes doesn't last for more then a few seconds when it's out side of the body. Also when you think about it your genitals don't even touch the seat.

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14y ago

No. You can only get genital herpes from sexual intercourse if the person you perform intercourse with also has genital herpes. I can't remember if it can be passed down through families.

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9y ago

You can't get herpes from a toilet seat. Herpes is spread by skin-to-skin contact with an infected person during or just before an outbreak.

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9y ago

You can't get herpes from a toilet seat. This is an old wives' tale.

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13y ago

Herpes in not transmitted by urine.

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