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Hi docs, can you tell me if stomache virus is contagious through the air?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

It occurs through: close person to person contact or contact with contaminated object. Just breathing the same air does not transmit it.

Dr Gabor and another doctor agreed

Answered 10/15/2017

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