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will i get sick from a tissue that i touched from when i was sick?


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Dr. Strangelove offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 2 months ago (22 minutes after post)

Viruses have varying life spans, so I cannot tell you whether it’s still infectious. But, as long as you thoroughly clean your hands before touching your face, food, or eating surfaces… you should be fine.

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1 year, 2 months ago (45 minutes after post)

like 2 months? or a month or so?

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Dr. Strangelove offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 2 months ago (51 minutes after post)

Most usually live for a few hours to few weeks. Some live for seconds, like HIV, and others can live for hundreds of years, but those are few and far between.

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gentle gentleman offline Verified User (5 years, 3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
Ladner, BC, CA | 1 year, 2 months ago (1 hour after post)

Unlikely, your body has created a mechanism to defend against the virus when you stopped getting sick so if the same virus attacked you’d be able to fight it. I wouldn’t worry about it

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Dr. Strangelove offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 2 months ago (1 hour, 2 minutes after post)

Not all viruses are one time, the antibodies aren’t always created with the correct specifications to that virus available for its next run in with the particular virus.

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1 year, 2 months ago (11 hours, 59 minutes after post)

Dr. Strangelove wrote:
Not all viruses are one time, the antibodies aren’t always created with the correct specifications to that virus available for its next run in with the particular virus.

But the virus on the tissue will be one the antibodies have the specifications to fight, as logically it will be the same strain as what was in the posters body. So really assuming it was a viral infection theres no worry.

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