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Originally Posted by southern1
Close contact doesn't spread mono. It's very unlikely you'd even get it from a sneeze. It's much, much less communicable than a cold. You've got to kiss or drink after an infected person to get it.
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I think this is kind of optimistic about how noncommunicable mono is. I teach high school*, and every so often, we'll have a little outbreak. I don't know that the method of transfer has to be exactly that direct. (Or maybe our kids are just kissing EVERYBODY .)
I'm not suggesting that your daughter will be the mono version of Typhoid Mary at recruitment, especially if she's scrupulously careful about keeping up with and throwing away her own kleenex, napkins, cups, etc, but I think when you factor in the weepiness of some events and how crowded some events are, I suspect there's some measure of risk.
*I don't teach health or science; I just mean that I may have known more kids with mono than the average person.