Tx- Houston Custodian at Medical Office Peed in Water Bottles of Employees Causing STD's

[wendybtn]

Custodian arrested in Houston after allegedly urinating in woman's water bottle, giving her STD

A custodian at a medical office in Texas is accused of urinating in a co-worker's water bottle and giving her a sexually transmitted disease. The suspect was arrested.

www.foxnews.com

This is so disgusting!

 

[tlcya]

what in the . . . ?

gross.

 

[GoBuckeyes]

Custodian arrested in Houston after allegedly urinating in woman's water bottle, giving her STD

A custodian at a medical office in Texas is accused of urinating in a co-worker's water bottle and giving her a sexually transmitted disease. The suspect was arrested.

www.foxnews.com

This is so disgusting!

Goodbye lunch. I should have just stopped at the headline. AYKM!? Do we have a shrink on here? What in the world causes this demented behavior?

 

[cvaldez1975]

CRINGE omg euw

 

[AugustWest]

Urine a lotta trouble Mr. Custodian

 

[wendybtn]

Now 13 victims come forward after janitor charged of peeing in bottles

Lucio Diaz, 50, is charged with indecent assault and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and is being held on a $75,000 bond after being accused of peeing in employee water bottles in Texas.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Thirteen more victims come forward.

 

[PrairieWind]

This is just unbelievable. I do hope he is prosecuted fully. That man is truly disgusting.
I no longer leave any food or drink in my office. And I wash my coffee cup every morning when I come in. Years ago, there was a camera in our office, the office manager caught the cleaning crew just helping themselves to food and drink around the office. So now there are more cameras and cleaning people are informed that they are under surveillance while cleaning. But I still don't leave anything in the refrigerator and still clean my cup.

 

[elmomom]

I am not buying it. It’s virtually impossible to catch an STD through anything other than personal close contact, let alone by a water bottle.

 

[DrQ]

IMHO It boggles my mind that the human species can even think of this kind of thing to do! EWWWW

 

[MimosaMornings]

I am not buying it. It’s virtually impossible to catch an STD through anything other than personal close contact, let alone by a water bottle.

I didn’t think it could live/survive outside of the human body?

 

[cocomod]

I am not buying it. It’s virtually impossible to catch an STD through anything other than personal close contact, let alone by a water bottle.

He said he rubbed up against her bottle... so does that mean that there was more than just urine in her bottle???

 

[cocomod]

I am not buying it. It’s virtually impossible to catch an STD through anything other than personal close contact, let alone by a water bottle.

He said he rubbed up against her bottle... so does that mean that there was more than just urine in her bottle???

When it comes to STD’s or STI’s, what we typically see is that they have a hard time existing outside of the body. In order to spread, they need sexual contact and genital-to-genital friction. That means that catching them from doorknobs, sneezes, pencils, or high fives is close to impossible. However, sharing a glass of water with someone could still spread oral herpes. HSV-1 — a variation of the Herpes Simplex Virus — will live not in the water of a glass, but on the rim of the glass that your mouth touches. If you share the wrong glass, you may end up with cold sores in or around your mouth. Therefore, it is always important to stay aware of what you come in contact with.

 

[elmomom]

I don’t think HSV1 is considered a STD, about 50% of adults have it, it is what causes cold sores in some people. Others may not even have symptoms even if they have it. It is not transmitted sexually, rather, by saliva. .
Catching HSV-2 is a bit more difficult. Most viruses do not live on surfaces for more than a few minutes at best. (Not verified, but I was a real life virologist before I retired a couple of years ago)
Link for prevalence of HSV1 Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) - Prevalence & Triggers

He said he rubbed up against her bottle... so does that mean that there was more than just urine in her bottle???

When it comes to STD’s or STI’s, what we typically see is that they have a hard time existing outside of the body. In order to spread, they need sexual contact and genital-to-genital friction. That means that catching them from doorknobs, sneezes, pencils, or high fives is close to impossible. However, sharing a glass of water with someone could still spread oral herpes. HSV-1 — a variation of the Herpes Simplex Virus — will live not in the water of a glass, but on the rim of the glass that your mouth touches. If you share the wrong glass, you may end up with cold sores in or around your mouth. Therefore, it is always important to stay aware of what you come in contact with.

 

[wendybtn]

I am not buying it. It’s virtually impossible to catch an STD through anything other than personal close contact, let alone by a water bottle.

I think drinking someone's urine is about the closest body fluid contact one could have. Easily transmissable.

 

[MimosaMornings]

She was suspicious but left her water bottle (guessing one of those stainless steel yeti types) at her desk with water from the previous day in it and wouldn’t look at it as soon as you get to work? Where did she refill it if she suspected the office water supply? I always take my container home with me and bring it back full the next morning, but I drink water on the way to work. This is bizarre.

 

[elmomom]

I think drinking someone's urine is about the closest body fluid contact one could have. Easily transmissable.

Urine is sterile. It does not transmit any STDs

 

[AugustWest]

Urine is sterile. It does not transmit any STDs

Urine is not sterile; it is an urban myth. See:

Urine Is Not Sterile: Use of Enhanced Urine Culture Techniques To Detect Resident Bacterial Flora in the Adult Female Bladder - PMC

Our previous study showed that bacterial genomes can be identified using 16S rRNA sequencing in urine specimens of both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients who are culture negative according to standard urine culture protocols. In the present ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Is urine actually sterile?

Urine: Is it sterile, and why?

www.popsci.com

 

[elmomom]

Urine is not sterile; it is an urban myth. See:

Urine Is Not Sterile: Use of Enhanced Urine Culture Techniques To Detect Resident Bacterial Flora in the Adult Female Bladder - PMC

Our previous study showed that bacterial genomes can be identified using 16S rRNA sequencing in urine specimens of both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients who are culture negative according to standard urine culture protocols. In the present ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Is urine actually sterile?

Urine: Is it sterile, and why?

www.popsci.com

When you need to resort to using 16s sequencing, the amount of bacteria you are detecting is extremely low, and with no guarantee that is living, and not dead. But that is besides the point. STDs are not spread via urine, not at all. Disease is not spread by urine.

 

[PrairieWind]

When you need to resort to using 16s sequencing, the amount of bacteria you are detecting is extremely low, and with no guarantee that is living, and not dead. But that is besides the point. STDs are not spread via urine, not at all. Disease is not spread by urine.

While urine itself doesn't spread disease, I believe the discharge common with gonorrhea would be present in or on the bottle.

 

[AugustWest]

When you need to resort to using 16s sequencing, the amount of bacteria you are detecting is extremely low, and with no guarantee that is living, and not dead. But that is besides the point. STDs are not spread via urine, not at all. Disease is not spread by urine.

I don’t disagree with you there. In fact I must have accidentally cut a sentence in the post you quoted where I questioned whether disease could be spread

Sorry for the confusion!