No You Can't Get A Disease From A Public Toilet Seats
It’s not completely irrational to worry about dirty public toilet seats. However, the real risk of catching a disease from a clean toilet seat is almost nonexistent.
The enormous efforts people make to avoid touching public toilets aren’t really necessary. Many public toilets have a dispenser with paper to cover the toilet seat.
In particular, you really don’t have to worry about catching the diseases you mention — herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis and HIV. It’s very unlikely that they could be transmitted via a toilet seat.
Public restrooms, like all public places, do present risks from infectious diseases. But those risks are not from toilet seats. Surfaces you touch with your hands — the flush handle on the toilet, the water faucet handle on the sink, the doorknob on entering or exiting the restroom
scientists who studied samples taken from a variety of public restrooms found that the sheer number of illness-causing bacteria present was too big to measure in many cases
No you can't, according to sexual health because most commonly spread through sexual activity, including intercourse, oral sex and, in the case of some diseases such as genital warts, direct skin-to-skin contact.
The enormous efforts people make to avoid touching public toilets aren’t really necessary. Many public toilets have a dispenser with paper to cover the toilet seat.
In particular, you really don’t have to worry about catching the diseases you mention — herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis and HIV. It’s very unlikely that they could be transmitted via a toilet seat.
Public restrooms, like all public places, do present risks from infectious diseases. But those risks are not from toilet seats. Surfaces you touch with your hands — the flush handle on the toilet, the water faucet handle on the sink, the doorknob on entering or exiting the restroom
scientists who studied samples taken from a variety of public restrooms found that the sheer number of illness-causing bacteria present was too big to measure in many cases
No you can't, according to sexual health because most commonly spread through sexual activity, including intercourse, oral sex and, in the case of some diseases such as genital warts, direct skin-to-skin contact.