Mononucleosis and "The Cup"

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I know a woman in her 70’s who contracted Mononucleosis, which is very rare for someone of her age. She is worried that she may have contracted it by receiving communion out of the cup. Does anyone know of any statistics in this regard, or are her worries unfounded?
 
I would have thought this is in the wrong forum but …mononucleosis is sometimes referred to as “the Kissing disease”…I would assume that the chalice is wiped but I guess the best way to avoid such a possibility is not to drink from the chalice.

Protestant churches when offering a communion of bread and wine generally serve the wine in small medicinal disposable cups for that reason.
 
Don’t know of any statistics, but it is indeed possible. Mono, among many other illnesses, is transmitted by saliva.

Most churches here don’t even offer the cup anymore. Everyone has to consider their own health situation. During the winter, and when our immune system are already stressed, our family avoids the cup. Last winter with the flu worries, most churches here also discontinued the sign of peace.
 
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I know a woman in her 70’s who contracted Mononucleosis, which is very rare for someone of her age. She is worried that she may have contracted it by receiving communion out of the cup. Does anyone know of any statistics in this regard, or are her worries unfounded?
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[post=1824552]Statistics[/post] are (as often the case) all over the place.

:twocents: I hold it as an article of faith that sickness may be transmitted by the common cup.

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I know a woman in her 70’s who contracted Mononucleosis, which is very rare for someone of her age. She is worried that she may have contracted it by receiving communion out of the cup. Does anyone know of any statistics in this regard, or are her worries unfounded?
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there is as yet no evidence of any illness being contracted this way
 
I’d just start attending an EF Mass. That way I wouldn’t need to worry about catching something from the Chalice.
 
If no one else in the parish who may have received from this particular chalice has contracted glandular fever (what we call it in Australia) then probably the lady didn’t catch it from the chalice. The Orthodox all from the same spoon and I haven’t heard of any communicable diseases in an Orthodox parish.
 
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