Posted on 10/07/2014 11:34:43 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Sex could keep the Ebola epidemic alive even after the World Health Organization (WHO) declares an area free of the disease, one of the discoverers of the deadly virus said on Tuesday.
The WHO is hoping to announce later this week that Nigeria and Senegal are free of Ebola after 42 days with no infections.
The 42 days is the standard period for declaring an outbreak over, twice the maximum 21-day incubation period of the virus.
However, it appears the disease can last much longer in semen.
'In a convalescent male, the virus can persist in semen for at least 70 days; one study suggests persistence for more than 90 days,' the WHO said in an information note on Monday.
'Certainly, the advice has to be for survivors to use a condom, to not have unprotected sex, for 90 days,' said Peter Piot, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a discoverer of Ebola in 1976.
'If we would apply the rule for double the time, that would be 180 days — six months,' he told reporters in Geneva. 'I think it (90 days) is probably a compromise, for practicality.'
Ebola spreads via bodily fluids such as blood and saliva, but it has also been detected in breast milk and urine, as well as semen, the WHO says.
The whole live virus has never been isolated from sweat, however.
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We'd need to examine the outcome of sending 4000 US troops—including homosexuals—for Ebola symptoms. :-/
This is becoming surrealistic.
Below is a Google search link re the survival of Ebola in Semen.
Hilarious! If a person had E boli and was that sick, one would think sex would be difficult to consider at that point.
Didn’t Jesus say ‘the poor you have with you always’? Maybe there is a reason for that....
If we look at our 46 million on food stamps, it may be that either there are no jobs and the government is complicit in not creating any.
Or when there are jobs that they don’t want to take, the choice to take one isn’t that necessary if you have alternatives like entitlements....’why bark when you can get another dog to bark for you’...or work and pay taxes in this case.
Never happen.
Well, they’ll kill a lot of them by having sex until they’re diagnosed. I read that the virus lives in semen for three months, so if they live, think how many they’ll kill off :D
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