What diseases can you get from a toilet seat?

Answer 1

No, chlamydia is spread by sex, not by toilet seats. STDs and STIs are called that for a reason: transmission usually only occurs through sexual/personal contact, or by bodily fluids such as seminal or vaginal fluids coming in contact with the mucous membranes of another person.

This makes it next to impossible to catch Chlamydia from sitting on a toilet because even if fluids were left by an infected individual, the fluids would only come in contact with the skin. Chlamydia lives for just a handful of minutes outside the body. Also, it can infect only the mucous membranes, which aren't in contact with a toilet seat during normal use.

If that's not convincing enough, consider the statistical evidence: why would half of all chlamydia cases occur in 15-26 year olds if you could get it from a toilet seat, given that toilet seat use is common in all age groups?
Chlamydia doesn't transfer via toilet seats.
No it can't be transferred from a toilet.

Answer 2

STDs are not transmitted from toilet seats. The viral and bacterial ones die on contact with the air, including HIV. You would also need a cut or sore on your butt for the bacteria or virus to get in. And really, if you saw a toilet seat covered in semen or blood would you sit down?

Also, crabs cannot be transmitted by toilet seats. They need hair to hang on to and not a smooth surface like a toilet seat.

Some infections can be transmitted by a toilet seat like e coli, salmonella, Hepatitis A, but again, you would need a way for those to inside you, and they prefer to travel by hands to mouth.

And, anyways, in a health perspective, toilet seats are one of the most sterile places in a restroom. Most bacteria can only live 1hour to 6 hours on a surfice like that anyway.

You can catch herpes from a toilet seat.

Answer 3

Only if the previous user had deposited the scabies mite there but this is not the normal route. Usually the disease is spread through prolonged body contact or the sharing of clothing or bedding.

Answer 4

The only way you could get trichomoniasis from a toilet seat is if you dragged your vulva over a freshly-left puddle of vaginal discharge from someone who was infected. That is not a likely scenario.

Answer 5

Yes. This includes certain types of hepatitis.

Any disease which can be spread through bodily fluids is a risk.

Answer 6

No. That is not correct. Bladder infection takes place due to improper personal hygiene.

Answer 7

You can not get AIDS from a toilet seat.

Answer 8

no