1. For you to give c-diff to someone else really is as simple as poop to mouth -- although there can be plenty of time and fomites in between.
2. It's precisely because c-diff sporulates that a major part of prevention rests squarely on the shoulders of those who would like to avoid getting it.
3. Even with logarithmic decline, you do eventually get rid of all the bugs. As my bacti professors always pointed out: You don't need to get to zero; you only need to have less than one.
But I don't mean to argue. Really. My point was only that folks with c-diff shouldn't feel like lepers or walking, talking contagiums. You just sounded so wistful when you said . . .
rsprenkle wrote:I'd love to know if I pose no further risks to anyone, but perhaps we just must assume we always will be...
I hereby appoint myself Queen of the World and say that whatever risks are posed by folks who are c-diff poz, we folks who are c-diff neg accept them without pause or alarm. :)