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CDC: Woman may have gotten Ebola after sex with survivor
Washington Examiner ^ | May 1, 2015 | Robert King

Posted on 05/02/2015 9:57:07 AM PDT by Rockitz

The deadly Ebola virus may be transmitted through sex long after a person has been cured, a major finding that could change how the virus is combated.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigators looked into the case of a Monrovia, Liberia, woman who contracted the disease. The agency identified only one link to Ebola: unprotected sex with an Ebola survivor who was not presenting symptoms.

Ebola can only be passed through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person showing symptoms. But health officials have been aware of another problem: The virus can remain in semen for nearly half a year after symptoms emerge, even after the patient has fully recovered. A survivor could still potentially infect a sexual partner with the virus, which appears to have happened in Monrovia in March, when the woman in question had sexual relations with a man who had been discharged the previous October.

A separate instance of "possible sexual transmission of Ebola has been reported, although the accompanying evidence was inconclusive," the CDC said in a report Friday.

The agency recommends that "contact with semen from male Ebola survivors be avoided until more information regarding the duration and infectiousness of viral shedding in body fluids is known. If male survivors have sex (oral, vaginal or anal), a condom should be used correctly and consistently every time."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolasex
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Only beaten back, but not defeated.

Other sources say:

"But studies conducted during previous outbreaks have found that the Ebola virus can be found in semen up to 82 days after a patient's initial symptoms. Scientists don't know if the man's semen contains live Ebola viruses, although they plan to conduct such tests, the CDC report says.

Tests of the man's semen did find genetic material from the Ebola virus, called RNA. The tests were performed 199 days — or about 6½ months — after he first developed symptoms, suggesting that the genetic material can remain in semen much longer than previously known. Earlier studies have found genetic material from Ebola up to 101 days after the beginning of symptoms, the CDC says."

1 posted on 05/02/2015 9:57:07 AM PDT by Rockitz
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To: Rockitz

If that’s the case, the entire continent of Africa will catch Ebola.

Apparently, that’s not happening.


2 posted on 05/02/2015 10:02:01 AM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!

It may take a while to show up as this case seems to indicate.


3 posted on 05/02/2015 10:04:05 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Rockitz

Behind door #1 is an Ebola survivor.
Behind door #2 is a pit bull infected with Black Plague.
And Michelle Obama is serving up lunch behind door #3.

Why is life so hard recently?


4 posted on 05/02/2015 10:09:10 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Rockitz

Talk about “demon seed.” Catching Ebola thru sex fits the bill.


5 posted on 05/02/2015 10:09:25 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Rockitz
So, according to AIDS rules, the doctor cannot
warn the sex partner of the danger.
6 posted on 05/02/2015 10:11:33 AM PDT by donna (I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth. - Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Nachum; null and void

For your perusal, gentlemen...


7 posted on 05/02/2015 10:13:48 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Veto!; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.


Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

8 posted on 05/02/2015 10:14:27 AM PDT by null and void (Is a crunchy spicy tuna roll with eel sauce too much to ask for?)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...

Ping...


9 posted on 05/02/2015 10:29:21 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Veto!
If that’s the case, the entire continent of Africa will catch Ebola.

Hmmm. 25,000 infected (ball park), 15,000 survivors, given half male, 7500 guys are going to be very busy infecting 30,200,000 Africans...over 4000 each is quite a quota...

10 posted on 05/02/2015 10:32:42 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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The importance of the 82 day finding is that researchers were able to culture the virus from the sample.

Finding viral RNA doesn’t mean anything by itself, since RNA can be present even when the virus is dead. But finding culturable virus indicates a strong possibility that the virus is contagious and infectious.

Here is the reference:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9988181

In the table, the 82 day seminal fluid sample contained virus that was cultured in cells, meaning it was active. Several other samples only contained RNA, but did not infect cells.


11 posted on 05/02/2015 10:34:00 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Rockitz

12 posted on 05/02/2015 10:51:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

13 posted on 05/02/2015 10:55:35 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Smokin' Joe

You and your math. Harumph! But you can’t stop them from trying.


14 posted on 05/02/2015 10:59:43 AM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: EEGator

Wilt Chamberlain was said to have had intercourse with thousands of females. Holy Toledo........


15 posted on 05/02/2015 11:37:47 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Rockitz

he’s wielding ... the dick of death !


16 posted on 05/02/2015 1:08:30 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Apparently, you have never seen the Breck commercial!

...and they tell two friends, then they tell two friends...


17 posted on 05/02/2015 4:04:09 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Rockitz
If male survivors have sex (oral, vaginal or anal), a condom should be used correctly and consistently every time. within six months, they're idiots!"

Fixed it.

18 posted on 05/02/2015 7:28:52 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (No Whizz, No Peace!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


19 posted on 05/02/2015 9:01:10 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: exDemMom

You are such a python…gov’t shill
Fellow friends.. notice when this poster turns up.


20 posted on 05/02/2015 9:27:11 PM PDT by acapesket
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