Why is it important to use a toilet seat cover when using a public toilet?

What are the health risks, if any?
Answer:
urine is sterile when it comes out but becomes smelly and can easily attract bacteria, feces has harmful bacteria and you could possibly get STD if you don't use the cover properly

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u want the skin on your bottom to come in direct contact with other peoples pee pee and poo poo?

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To tell you the truth, there are no risks. People just don't want to put the butt on the toliet seat. I mean it is a little gross to sit on a toliet where 500 other people have already sat, but no real health risks.

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cuz u dont know how many people have ejaculated on tha toilet seat

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It's not really necessary- it's highly unlikely that you will ever contract any sort of disease or infection from a tiolet seat. It's simply a matter of personal preference and hygeine.

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if you ever take a microbiology class youll find out there are millions of bacteria on every day things so imagine a toilet seat

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ew. it's important because 1. it's gross to put your bare *** somewhere where someone who don't know had been sitting with there bare ***... 2. you can MANY diseases from public restrooms... such as:-SARS
-SCABIES
-ECOLI
-PARASITES (like pubic lice)
-HERPES
-COMMON COLDS, FLU
-SKIN INFECTIONS
AND...
-INTESTINAL ILLNESSthat scares me enough to not use public restrooms... here in the dorm, I even spray the toilet w/ disenfectant before I use it.
ugggghhhh.

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Here's the thing about communicable diseases... they don't enter through the ***. They enter through nasal passages, eyes, and of course, the mouth. You are not going to catch anything from sitting on a toilet seat, uneless of course you mouth comes into direct contact with your rear. what you should be concerned about are the surfaces your hands come into contact with, because your hands eventually come into contact with one of the aforementioned places.
Also, I took a microbiolgy class in which we sampled and cultured different surfaces in a bathroom... toilet seat, sink, faucet handles, door handles, floor, etc. The direst place in a bathroom, the floor. The door handles were really bad too. The cleanest place... the toilet seat... I guess because no one sits on them. So, ladies, next time you're in a public restroom, don't worry too much about sitting down to pee, just make sure you don't put your purse on the floor!

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