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Can You Get a Disease From a Toilet Seat? https://ift.tt/2MhPL7u The world is filled with disgusting toilets. You might personally prefer toilets that smell okay and aren’t covered in filth, but try telling that to whichever organs are involved in making you really need to use the bathroom. It has happened before, and it will happen again: you’ll be at a public bus station, or a music festival, or the apartment of a man under the age of 26, and you’ll realize, suddenly, that you no longer have any choice. Of course, horrific viral infection-carriers aren’t always visible to the naked eye (or feelable by the naked ass). All toilets, even the clean ones, are by definition unsanitary. But, clean-seeming or visibly grime-caked, the question remains: is there anything to actually be worried about? That is, can toilets actually transmit disease, or is the worst-case-scenario here just feeling kind of gross? And if they can, then what diseases, specifically? Advertisement For this week’s Giz Asks, we reached out to a number of experts in microbiology and immunology for help in answering those questions. The odds of dying/getting sick from the wrong toilet are slim, we learned, but it is definitely possible—and you should probably keep your toilet clean regardless. William DampierAssistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, Drexel University
Vincent RacanielloHiggins Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University
Laura KasmanAssociate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina
Do you have a burning question for Giz Asks? Email us at tipbox@gizmodo.com. Digital Trends via Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com June 11, 2018 at 09:06AM
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