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."
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It’s certainly not going to be over any time soon IMO....it’s nature is to creep back up. In part it’s Africa and all that goes with what’s been seen and heard for decades.
Now they’re flooding them into Western nations in mass and their’s no way they’re checking all these people’s health. Further those here are not asimulating, rather demanding that communities adapt to their culture.
“Somali refugees in Minnesota demanded the local government provide a special food zone free of pork to comply with their faith. In fact, Somali use of the state’s public food assistance program has doubled over the past five years..”
Influenza (all subtypes) is the big one, but there are also West Nile Virus, measles, various encephalitis viruses, Dengue, Chikungunya, malaria, etc. Take your pick.
Those are just the diseases that I pay attention to. There are many many other health threats out there, many of them infectious diseases, but also environmental threats, non-infectious diseases, and injuries.
A career in public health is job security.
Ebola and its sibling Marburg are not going to ever disappear, because they are animal diseases and the animals (probably fruit bats) are not going to disappear. These diseases will always be a problem in Africa.
That is a different issue than unchecked immigration. We could very well get diseases that have never occurred in the US before, or that we eradicated decades ago. We won't get Ebola or Marburg from unchecked immigration, unless we start smuggling in live infected fruit bats.
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