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Zika May Be Transmitted by Oral Sex, Scientists Find
NY Times ^ | JUNE 2, 2016 | DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

Posted on 06/03/2016 6:28:55 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt

Scientists raised the possibility that the Zika virus can be transmitted by oral sex — perhaps even by kissing — on Friday in a letter to The New England Journal of Medicine describing one such case in France.

A single incident may seem trivial. But until early this year, there was only one known instance of sexual transmission of the Zika virus — a 2008 case in which a mosquito researcher just back from Africa infected his wife in Colorado.

Now scientists believe that sexual transmission is an important driver of the Zika epidemic in the Americas. Cases have been reported in 10 countries where no mosquitoes carry the virus, including France, Germany, Italy, Portugual and New Zealand.

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


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: billclinton; disease; infectious; presidentialtx; zika
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To: trebb
trebb :" Keep it “Zika’d or suffer the consequences. Hear that Bill?"

No cigars for you, trebb !

21 posted on 06/03/2016 7:51:18 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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No cigars for you, trebb !

Thank you! no telling where they've been - almost as bad as bananas at a Lesbian convention.....

22 posted on 06/03/2016 8:15:49 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: MNnice

That is the funniest thing I’ve read in a month.


23 posted on 06/03/2016 8:18:42 AM PDT by Yaelle (Tinkerbelle glittering up the runway for Trump Force One!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Well, at least now I know I can’t get it from my wife.


24 posted on 06/03/2016 8:25:33 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

The joys of being infected by the third world... /s


25 posted on 06/03/2016 8:39:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (When Hillarys Foundation gets a million only $30K goes to charity. Where's the effing press outrage?)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

So a little head can cause a little head?


26 posted on 06/03/2016 9:02:47 AM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: Right Brother

MSM journalists.

yeah they seem to kiss his....


27 posted on 06/03/2016 9:04:56 AM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

The real price of “Open Borders” is the collapse of the American public health system.

Mass lethal diseases brought in with uncontrolled/monitored immigrants are the ticking time bombs set to destroy lives and local/state/federal budgets in the next 8-years.


28 posted on 06/03/2016 9:43:47 AM PDT by Dark Wing (terrorism, disease, public health)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Be glad Slick is no longer prez. Thanks Tilted Irish Kilt.

29 posted on 06/03/2016 3:21:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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