Recently, the media reported that many hotels and restaurants are unclean news, towels, toilets, hairdryer and other items have been named as a high source of infection. Does anyone know that color-stained venereal disease can also be transmitted through hotels? Lin Huan-Yi, a urologist at the first affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong Province, analyzed the pathogenic characteristics of six types of venereal disease, the route of infection, and the risk of infection in healthy people.
1, gonorrhea
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is transmitted through Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which has weak resistance to long-term survival in vitro and can not resist dry, cold, heat and disinfectants, except that it can survive longer in wet rooms.
People with gonorrhea have many urethral secretions, which contain many human white blood cells, which protect Neisseria gonorrhoeae, increase its viability and spread indirectly through contaminated clothing, bedding, towels and toilets.
Infection index: high
2, nongonococcal urethritis
Nongonococcal urethritis was caused by Chlamydia trachomatis and could not resist heat and disinfectant. However, it was able to resist low temperature, and the infectivity decreased significantly within 48 hours below 37 degrees, but it could survive for 24 hours at 4 degrees low temperature.
Chlamydia can survive 30 hours on furniture surfaces, 12 hours on toilet paper, and 10-15 minutes on the skin of hands. If sanitary conditions are poor and unsterilized, chlamydia may be transmitted to others in this short period of time by hand, sharing towels and toiletries.
Infection index: high
3, condyloma acuminatum
Condyloma acuminatum is infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), and HPV leaves the body more resilient to drying, freezing and solvents, viral-contaminated furniture, bathroom floors, and towels. So in a hotel, barefoot can also be infected with HPV..
Infection index: high
4, syphilis
Treponema pallidum has weak infectivity and is not easy to survive in vitro. It is easy to kill with boiling water, soapy water, alcohol disinfectant, etc., even if it is sitting on a hotel toilet, it is less likely to be infected.
Infectious index: low
5, AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is weak in vitro and can only be transmitted through blood and blood products. Therefore, it can be prevented by avoiding exposure to these infected things. Generally speaking, hotels are less likely to have them, so the infection rate is low.
Infectious index: low
6, genital herpes
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) in vitro survival is weak, dry and general disinfectant can be killed.
Infectious index: low