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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain how it's contagious? As in, it's from traces of a person's fecal matter, right? So like unwashed or poorly washed hands after a bowel movement and then they touch common areas and/or prepare food?[/quote]

Yes, that's how it's transmitted. [/quote]

[b]It also lives in soil and mulch[/b]. Handwashing after gardening is important. But this also means you could get it from almost any raw produce.

Use soap for handwashing; hand sanitizer does not kill c. diff (or norovirus).[/quote]

Wow! How is it in soil?!! My grandmother randomly got c-diff a couple of years ago. She's a big gardener and come to think of it, got it after spring gardening. First I have ever heard it could be caught from soil.[/quote]

I’m not sure what you mean by “how”. It’s a spore-forming bacteria, meaning that when it’s in hostile conditions it reverts to a less active state and then reactivates when it’s on hospitable turf again. That could be a lot of places; dirt seems like kind of an obvious possibility (and sure enough, c. diff does live in dirt).[/quote]

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