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Is a stafh infection in the belly button contagious?
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Depends: This depends upon your definition of contagion. Anyone touching the dressings, the wound or your skin can become a carrier of the same organism, but whether or not they will become infected depends upon a very diverse assortment of factors.
Answered 5/22/2014
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