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If someone has a stomach bug, in theory if i kiss them would i be safe, since these germs are generally only transmitted via the fecal-oral route?
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No: The virus would be found along the entire intestinal tract which communicates with the mouth. So although you are correct that most transmission is fecal-oral, there is oral-oral transmission.
Answered 7/28/2015
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