How to avoid catching a disease from public toilets: A doctor answers her patients’ most common question – as California battles a toilet-related hepatitis outbreak

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The dreaded place of questionable smells, dark tiled walls and the harshest toilet paper you’ve ever used in your whole life. 

Welcome to public toilets. 

The thought of how many people have sat on the same toilet seat, and how many people have ‘forgotten’ to wash their hands on the way out makes most of us shudder. The real question is what diseases are we vulnerable to when using public toilets?

There seems to be a myth that you can catch sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis among others just by walking past a public toilet. 

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