If you stick to one partner, you can still have fun. It's having two or more partners over two weeks that's dangerous. You pass on bacteria and viruses that predispose to the disease, and with multiple partners the exposure is exponential. |
We all carry bacteria in our throats, and some of us will carry the meningococcal bacteria. They don't exist very well outside of the body. But if it can pass in saliva, from one person to the next, then it passes very easily. |