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A member asked:
If public urinal water containing urine gets in your eye, can you catch an std? (the water was at least 9 hours old, and it was just a drop or two).
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No risk: STDs are not transmitted in this fashion. Even if the water had been contaminated with an STD virus or bacteria, it would be too dilute to cause infection. You avoid STDs by having only safe sex. Don't worry about it.
Answered 8/10/2016
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