HIV passes through sharing toilet seats with an infected person.

Keep practicing — related questions

• HIV virus can spread by touching an HIV infected person
• There are more bacterias on your office desks than your toilet
• Only drug users and gay men need to worry about becoming infected with HIV
• HIV/AIDS can be transmitted by body-piercing or tattooing
• The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.
• If infected blood comes into contact with any open wound, HIV may be transmitted.
• Each year, there are more than 1,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
• HIV will always progress into AIDS and ultimately death.