Home›Open Questions›What is the measured risk of infection from a shared communion cup, and has any church changed its practice because of a measurement?Open QuestionsWhat is the measured risk of infection from a shared communion cup, and has any church changed its practice because of a measurement?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What is the measured risk of infection from a shared communion cup, and has any church changed its practice because of a measurement?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-is-the-measured-risk-of-infection-from-a-shared-communion-cup-and-has-any-church-changed-its-practice-because-of-a-measurement.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What is the measured risk of infection from a shared communion cup, and has any church changed its practice because of a measurement?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-is-the-measured-risk-of-infection-from-a-shared-communion-cup-and-has-any-church-changed-its-practice-because-of-a-measurementCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-is-the-measured-risk-of-infection-f, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What is the measured risk of infection from a shared communion cup, and has any church changed its practice because of a measurement?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-is-the-measured-risk-of-infection-from-a-shared-communion-cup-and-has-any-church-changed-its-practice-because-of-a-measurement}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionChurches suspended the common cup during the influenza pandemic of 1918 and again in the epidemics of the following century, and intinction and individual glasses spread as a result. This run deliberately made no claim about transmission risk because it could not verify one, and the relationship between what has been measured and what churches actually decided is not established here.What would resolve this A review of the published microbiological and epidemiological studies of the shared chalice, paired with the actual decisions of church authorities, to establish whether the evidence drove the practice or followed it.OpenEpidemiology; liturgical studiesDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First EditionCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnIntinction, Practices Well-attested Source Divinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Editiontier 1SourcesDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Editiontier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year