I am tempted to link up some clips from that wetlands film I saw a while back but that would probably be less not safe for work as much as breaking the whole concept. Did amuse though.
That said if a tomato or something upsets my delicate constitution, I get the "rumble rumble rumble" 30 second warning, instant rugby player transformation and thus I am compelled to use a public toilet it would never have even occurred to me to use a cover (not that I have ever seen such a thing in this country) or hover or anything. Arse down, knees up, hope I don't end up with Johnny Cash* playing in my head and hope I had the forethought to pick a place with some vaguely pleasant means to clean up afterwards.
*save others a search
and have a favourite cover of it while I am linking things up
Anyway it was time for science.
Starting with a search of toilet seat transmission vector
First result
"Are toilet seats a vector for transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965062/
A book result titled Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Women
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...age&q=toilet seat transmission vector&f=false
It mentioned that viable samples were found for a given infection in a small, though clinically significant samples that remained viable for some 45 minutes. It does however go on to say that recorded instances of transmission via this are absent.
Further clicking dismissed it as a vector for crab lice and Gonorrhea as well, though http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/neisseria-gon-eng.php says transmission by fomites (which would include toilet seats, though is certainly not limited to them) is rare.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence but it appears some went looking, did what appear to me to be reasonable controls and groundwork test and came back with nothing. Amusingly page 4 of the search came back with this thread.
That said if a tomato or something upsets my delicate constitution, I get the "rumble rumble rumble" 30 second warning, instant rugby player transformation and thus I am compelled to use a public toilet it would never have even occurred to me to use a cover (not that I have ever seen such a thing in this country) or hover or anything. Arse down, knees up, hope I don't end up with Johnny Cash* playing in my head and hope I had the forethought to pick a place with some vaguely pleasant means to clean up afterwards.
*save others a search
and have a favourite cover of it while I am linking things up
Anyway it was time for science.
Starting with a search of toilet seat transmission vector
First result
"Are toilet seats a vector for transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965062/
It should be noted however that the study was concerned with the implications for immunocompromised individuals, and for a particularly virulent class of infections with limited treatment options even in healthy patients.
A book result titled Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Women
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...age&q=toilet seat transmission vector&f=false
It mentioned that viable samples were found for a given infection in a small, though clinically significant samples that remained viable for some 45 minutes. It does however go on to say that recorded instances of transmission via this are absent.
Further clicking dismissed it as a vector for crab lice and Gonorrhea as well, though http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/neisseria-gon-eng.php says transmission by fomites (which would include toilet seats, though is certainly not limited to them) is rare.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence but it appears some went looking, did what appear to me to be reasonable controls and groundwork test and came back with nothing. Amusingly page 4 of the search came back with this thread.
