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.