herpes question

[sleeplessworried]

I have read on more than several places where it says that heres can live up to 7 hours on a toilet seat and was wondering why the rules are that u can never get it from a toilet seat? Wouldn't it just be possible that someone could be infected by a toilet seat?

Also other things i have read is lives for at least a couple of minutes where i thought that it dies as soon as it hits air?

[gracefromHHP]

Your questions are getting absurd now.

grace

[sleeplessworried]

omg days !!!!! would it be alive then? wow this is really scary.

so it takes heat and friction what if you are constipated?

[gracefromHHP]

it can be detected on surfaces for days even but that's not the point.

You could put active herpes on your skin and you wouldn't get herpes from it. It needs heat and friction to get down into the body which I don't care how long you spend on the toilet and how often you wiggle to get body waste out - isn't going to happen to transmit the virus.

If it was that easy, whole families that share bathrooms would have herpes infections and you never see that - not even in under developed countries where sanitation and facilities in general aren't as nice as what most of us have.  


grace

[sleeplessworried]

also is it true that it lives for several hours or does it die within seconds?

[sleeplessworried]

yes but people sometimes get ob on their buttocks etc.. I don't understand why it is a definite NO when people say they got it from a toilet seat ???

[gracefromHHP]

it takes more than just coming in contact with the virus to infect someone - it also takes heat and friction.

also think about what parts of your body actually touch the seat - not the parts where the virus commonly sheds from and where ob's occur from. the odds of there being virus on the seat in the first place are slim to none anyways.

grace