[totetsu]

Probiotic kissing booth?

[TeMPOraL]

Well, why not? Compared to fecal matter transplants, which are already a thing, tickets to a kissing booth will sell out like hot cakes.

(Can I pay for a monthly pass up front? It's for medical purposes!)

[klyrs]

> Well, why not?

Herpes.

And other viruses, probably, but one incurable STI (KTI?) is all the reason I need to say hell no.

[TeMPOraL]

But in terms of competing with fecal matter transplants - are there no diseases that could be transmitted between... the backends?

[klyrs]

Crucially, the recipient cannot infect the donor in, let's say, the accepted method of fecal transplantation.

[Fomite]

FMT was the topic of my dissertation. Donor stool is heavily screened, and there's pushes both to use the patient's own stool where possible, or creating synthetic stool that is pathogen free.