For obvious reasons, this almost never happens deliberately.
Usually, the situation pops up if an infected person might forget toproperly washtheir hands after using the toilet.
Anything they touch afterward might be contaminated with microscopic germs that other people may encounter.
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The microbe is spread through the fecal-oral route.
In many cases offoodborne illness outbreaks, poor hand hygiene is the precipitating factor.
While poor hand washing is a major cause of fecal-oral contamination, there are other equally important considerations.
Prevention
Good handwashing is a tremendously effective way to break the fecal-oral cycle.
Fecal-oral transmission happens when an infected person’s contaminated feces enters the body of another person.
Eating foods that were washed or harvested from contaminated water can also spread disease in a similar manner.
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