What are contact with bodily fluids?

Contact with bodily fluids is when you touch something that came from another person’s body, like their mucus, blood, or saliva.

Imagine you're playing with your friend, and they sneeze on your hand. That sneeze has mucus in it, a bodily fluid. Now you have contact with bodily fluids because your hand touched something from their body.

Sometimes, people share things like cups or toys. If someone else used the same cup and had a little bit of blood on it, then you could get contact with bodily fluids too, just like when you touch something that came from another person’s body.

Getting contact with bodily fluids can sometimes pass germs or even tiny bits of skin cells. Think about how you might catch a cold if someone coughs near you, it's kind of the same idea, but instead of air, it's something you touched!