Janitor dips genitals in water bottle, gives woman STD

brandon8283 said
She said “for the rest of her life,” which implies that this is a viral, not bacterial or protozoan infection. So that rules out syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, yeast infections, trichomoniasis, etc.

Leaves HIV (probably not, and would potentially carry an attempted murder charge if it were), Hep B (definitely possible), Hep C (unlikely as there’s no discussion of blood), HPV (definitely possible, but perhaps a conversation about potential cancer would have been mentioned), and herpes (definitely possible).

And we’re not just taking her at face value—there’s video of the act and they both tested positive for the same STD. That’s about as good a case as you can make.

Is it really as good of a case as can be made? I think this is still missing the threshold question - can an STD be transmitted that way? It’s really a medical question - were we litigating this as a legal case it would require expert testimony.

There are two other ways besides the “dick in the water bottle” theory that these two people can have the same STD. One is that they had sex and the other is that it’s coincidence (I suppose modern lab analysis can probably connect two infections by specific strain/genome if that was done but that’s probably expensive).

Some quick research (that would be awkward for me to explain to my wife 😆) seems to show that it’s possible though believed to be rare. The main reason why it is rare is because these infections don’t survive outside of the body for very long (like minutes).

Most likely candidate is some kind of oral herpes infection. I’m not saying I don’t believe the story, I just want to know more about this alleged mode of transmission.

https://www.healthline.com/health/can-you-get-herpes-from-sharing-a-drink

https://www.ozmo.io/can-you-get-an-std-from-sharing-a-water-bottle/