The virus also gets into your body through tiny tears and scrapes.
Can u get stds from toilet seats.
Typically the virus gets into the body via mucous membranes found in your genitals mouth or anus.
Toilet seat was initially considered as a source of infection but now it has been proved that not all infections are transmitted through sharing of seats.
To get chlamydia from a toilet seat you d have to bring your genitals into contact with the toilet seat which is impossible if you are straddling the toilet the right way.
It s a sexually transmitted disease spread by skin to skin contact.
A toilet seat doesn t offer an environment for stds to thrive so it can t live there for more than 10 seconds they.
Coli shigella streptococcus hepatitis a virus the common cold virus and various sexually transmitted organisms.
It s nearly impossible to get genital herpes from a toilet seat.
Stds don t usually survive when they fall off the human body she explains.