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A member asked:
When going to the public toilet, the genitals accidentally touch the toilet seat, if there is a hpv virus on the toilet seat, will it be infected?
3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Be vaccinated.: If a flock of Canada geese take off over your head, it's like an aerial bombing raid as goose poop hits your head. Are you infected? Not really. You're just splattered with poop. Whether or not you get infected is another story. Anyway, in real life, people don't get HPV infections from chairs, benches, toilet seats. Sounds theoretically possible, but we "don't sweat the small stuff." No worries.
Answered 9/4/2019
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No risk, no worry: Going back over 100 years, people have worried or believed that STDs could be caught from toilet seats. We know now it never happens, for HPV or any other STD. If you don't have sex with an infectred person, you'll never catch an STD. Don't worry about it.
Answered 9/4/2019
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