I know you can't catch AIDS from a toilet seat. What can you catch?

Not much. You stand a much better chance of catching something nasty from the germs living in your kitchen sponges than from anything on your toilet seat, said Dr. Iain Fraser , a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital. (Full article: 298 words)

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