Was looking for "deadly", as per your spitting is the same as a gun pointed at you.Charlies.Contingency wrote: You want some examples of what could be caught from spit?
Meningitis, chickenpox, flu, diphtheria, rubella, TB, Hepatitis ABC, conjunctivitis, cytomegalovirus...
It's is concerned by many about HIV and other stuff, but most of it cannot really be transmitted through saliva alone, but through blood, which you can spit. So anything that can be transmitted through blood, can theoretically be transmitted via spit if it has blood in it.
There's a lot of bad stuff out there, and nobody wants to take it home to their family at the end of the day because somebody spit on them.
The items you pointed out are either not deadly, and in the overwhelming majority of case cannot be transmitted by saliva. I won't go through all of them, but.....
Hep ABC
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TBThe chance of transmission with deep kissing is unknown, as no infections have been definitively documented after exposure to infected saliva
http://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/pamp ... EN_rev.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Reminds me of the 80's when some folks thought HIV could be spread on a toilet seat...You
cannot
get TB germs from:
Saliva
shared
from
kissing
