Posted on 02/23/2022 10:30:25 AM PST by Red Badger
Researchers at the Department of Microbiology of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have found that the COVID19 virus can cause acute testicular damage, chronic asymmetric testicular atrophy, and hormonal changes in hamsters despite a light pneumonia.
“In managing convalescent COVID-19 males, it is important to be aware of possible hypogonadism (low sex drive) and subfertility,” said Chair of Infectious Diseases Professor Kwok-yung Yuen, who led the research effort. “ COVID-19 vaccination can prevent this complication.”
The HKU study of testicular damage of the virus, SARS-CoV-2, has been accepted for publication in the leading journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
COVID 19 Testicular Damage Shrinkage
Previous studies have reported testicular pain in COVID-19 patients. One autopsy study of males who died from COVID-19 showed orchitis with lots of testicular cell damage, but SARS -CoV-2 was not consistently found in semen specimens.
The HKU team investigated the testicular and hormonal changes of hamsters infected by virus given through the intranasal or direct testicular route using the influenza virus in the control group. The research finds that virus-infected hamsters developed self-limiting pneumonia. But even intranasal SARS-CoV-2 challenge caused acute decrease in sperm count, and serum testosterone starting from the 4 to 7 days. The SARS-CoV-2 infected hamsters developed testicular atrophy with reduced testicular size and weight. The serum sex hormone level was markedly reduced at 42 to 120 days after infection (dpi). Acute testicular inflammation, haemorrhage, and necrosis of seminiferous tubules, and disruption of spermatogenesis were seen.
COVID Testicular Damage Shrinkage
From 7 to 120 dpi, the inflammation, degeneration, and necrosis of testicular tissue persisted. Intranasal challenge with Omicron and Delta variants were found to induce similar testicular changes. These testicular damages can be prevented by vaccination.
The control group of hamsters challenged by influenza A virus given intranasally or intra-testicularly showed no testicular infection or damage.
Reference: “Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections by intranasal or testicular inoculation induces testicular damage preventable by vaccination in golden Syrian hamsters” by Can Li, Zhanhong Ye, Anna Jin-Xia Zhang, Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, Wenchen Song, Feifei Liu, Yanxia Chen, Mike Yat-Wah Kwan, Andrew Chak-Yiu Lee, Yan Zhao, Bosco Ho-Yin Wong, Cyril Chik-Yan Yip, Jian-Piao Cai, David Christopher Lung, Siddharth Sridhar, Dongyan Jin, Hin Chu, Kelvin Kai-Wang To and Kwok-Yung Yuen, Accepted, Clinical Infectious Diseases. PDF
If Bill gates has anything to do with it, you are right!.................
I (54) had the Omnicron earlier this year. Sore throat, maybe a slight fever for one day, and a cough that took two full weeks to completely go away. Somehow, my wife (53) didn’t get it. My sister in law (57, I think) had it, and somehow my brother (60) didn’t get it. My son (19) had it early last year, as did my nephew (21 at the time, and my 25 year old niece had it a few weeks ago. Nobody had worse than a bad cold. None of us have any underlying serious conditions; none of us are fat.
Also, it can give you peanut butter and toe jam toes.
We had slight fevers the first day, so we took ivermectin the first two nights, and the third day our fevers seemed to be just a slight headache. That night they broke, and the next day I was good to get things done around the place. She was fatigued for a few days. We had slight upset stomachs that lasted a few days (her for over a week), but nothing we ate bothered us. We are both slim, probably within 5 pounds of when we married in ‘78.
I’m not even certain I had a fever. If I did, it wasn’t much. The sore throat was not fun, nor was the cough. I forgot to mention that my 22 year old son got sick at the exact same time I did. We went to a basketball game together about 4 days before symptoms popped up. Sore throat and cough. He was mostly well 24 hours later (drove back to base) and completely well 36 hours later (no missed work). Younger immune system helps a lot. When his younger brother got it last year, he was mildly sick for about 48 hours. The quarantine time back then was 2 weeks. We all got pretty sick of him though not from him
My gear’s fine.
Sounds like more excuses by the left for poor performance.
I escaped having much of a sore throat. That was the first symtom but it never amounted to much. Maybe a little more for my wife, but she did cough for quite some time.
We’re both healthy, although she has a hypothyroid issue. Me, just partially brain dead most of the time. Lol
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