Coronavirus is highly contagious - here's how it can spread
Although this sounds absolutely horrifying, it’s a common route of infection for many diseases. It doesn’t mean that you need to consume faeces, like a dung beetle, it refers to how faecal material from an infected person can transfer to surfaces due to poor hygiene or from flies. A healthy person can then eat food that has touched the contaminated surfaces, hence faecal-oral transmission.
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