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RIGHT... and so it is. That is how polio and many other diseases
including some of
the hepatitis viruses get passed around. Ingrid

Merl Turkin wrote:
As a kid you are brainwashed into thinking
"pee pee nasty", "pee pee bad", it's total nonsense if you are
healthy.



Ingrid you are mistaken. In most people most of the time urine is
sterile. The only time it is not is if the owner has a urinary tract
infection. The microorganisms that cause many diseases that are
communicable by contact, exchanging bodily fliuids, droplets in sneezes,
etc don't generally cross over from the blood stream to the urine.

See here http://www.engenderhealth.org/ip/disease/dtm2.html

In the case of the UTI the bugs mostly get into the urine and
surrounding tissue from the outside via the urethra not by crossing from
the blood.

In the home situation you are much more likely to exchange microbes with
each other by touching, kissing, breathing etc than contact with the
urine of another. The chance of getting such via urine when you have
not got it by any of the more common methods would be slim indeed.

My estimation is that the risk is vanishingly small.

David