can you get herpes from door handles or toilet seats?

Answer 1

Certain types of "herpes: are Airborne - do you understand? Pink eye is one, and cold sores another. So of course you can pick-up all kinds of deceases from handles,door knobs, etc. That's why you should WASH your HANDS after every toilet exposure,when you arrive and leave work,several times a day, you should know!! So now you know, so don't become a "fanatic"! LOL -

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Answer 3

Wow you seem to either get not enough information or too muich on these things, heh.

Short answer, nope.

The herpes virus can last for hours on the surface of door handles, toilet seat, water fountains, a pen, or any other fomite (fomite is something capible of transporting an infective agent).

Your skin is an effective barrier for keeping such nasties from infecting you. So no, generally you can not get herpes or aids or anything else from sitting on a toilet. However, if there is a break in the skin then all bets are off. So, if you've somehow cut your butt, had a pimple burst, whatever...you may want to squat instead of sit :p

Likewise, if there is a cut on your hand, you want to make sure that you wear a band-aid. If at work and you work with something that will make that band-aid fall off (food service, for example), then wear a glove.

As mentioned earlier, it's always important to wash your hands before eating. I'll add to that any time you are going to touch your mouth or eyes at all.

Also, use the towel that you dry your hands off with to open the door handle, so you don't expose those clean hands to that nasty door handle on your way out to your meal ;)

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

There seems to be a lack of consensus on this matter. In general it may be possible but very highly unlikely. Read below:

"Sexual intercourse and oral sex are the only ways genital herpes is transmitted; it is *not* transmitted by sitting on contaminated toilet seats, by hot tubs or swimming pools, or through other kinds of non-intimate contact."

The above statement is from a trusted web site about genital herpes. It may not be the whole story, however.

Below is derived from a brief abstract of a JAMA article:

"Several health spas were closed temporarily because of possible nonvenereal spread of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in spa water at these facilities.

We collected water specimens from two health spas and studied them for (1) the presence of HSV; (2) bromine (Br2), chlorine (Cl2), and pH levels; and (3) the ability of HSV to survive in water. No HSV could be isolated from the spa water specimens. Spa water had high levels of Cl2 and Br2, tap water specimens had low levels of Cl2, and distilled water had no detectable Cl2 or Br2.

The addition of spa water to laboratory stock virus immediately inactivated the virus. The HSV survived four hours in the tap water and 24 hours in distilled water.

The survival of HSV appeared to be related to the free halogen content of water. To approximate the conditions of survival of HSV on plastic-coated benches and seats in spa facilities, HSV was placed on plastic surfaces in a humid atmosphere at 37 to 40 degrees C.

The virus was found to survive up to 4.5 hours under these conditions. The survival of HSV from human lesions may be different due to the presence of tissue secretions and proteins.

Furthermore, transmission may require other factors, such as rubbing of skin or penetration through abrasions.

However, survival of significant amounts of virus for 4.5 hours on
plastic surfaces suggests that fomites such as these may be
nonvenereal routes of HSV transmission.

So theoretically it is possible, but you have to be about the most unlucky person on the face of the earth. Getting randomly hit by a meteorite ranks as more likely.

Now of course french kissing while ovulating can still get you pregnant...heh, heh.

Good luck. I hope this helps.

Answer 8

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