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A member asked:

Can you get any diseases if you use a toilet and the toilet paper has dried blood and you didn't notice and you wipe yourself ?

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Dr. Martin Raff answered

Unlikely: I have always maintained that nothing is impossible, but this sounds reasonably close.

Answered 8/4/2018

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