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Can syphills be transmitted by contact with sperm from a sink? such as touching or accidentally drinking sink water with sperm in it?
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possible I suppose. But unlikely. You need to Bev infected by spirochete. I would Google spirochete survival in sink. Someone must have studied. Also go to uptodate.com and CDC.gov and search.
Answered 3/30/2021
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No. Contracting a syphilis is almost always through direct sexual contact with ulcerative lesions (small open wounds) of the skin or mucous membranes of infected people.
Answered 3/29/2021
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Would totally agree that surface contact is NOT a vector for syphilis infectivity, and doubt the infective spirochete would survive in a sink.
Answered 4/28/2021
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