Posted on 05/08/2020 5:57:42 PM PDT by KingofZion
The new coronavirus has been found in the semen of infected individuals, according to Chinese researchers, raising the prospect that the virus could be sexually transmitted.
The study, other researchers warn, also raises many questions. It doesn’t explain how much viral load was present in the sperm; nor did it examine whether the virus can be transmitted through sexual activity. The study, conducted at China’s Shangqiu Municipal Hospital, was described in a research letter published Thursday by the JAMA Network of medical journals.
It is the first to detect the virus in reproductive fluids. Further research is needed to understand whether safe-sex practices should be part of Covid-19-prevention efforts, say medical experts who read the paper.
“These are intriguing results,” said John Brooks, chief medical officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid-19 response. But it doesn’t mean that semen is infectious, he noted. “When we’re looking everywhere for this virus, we’re finding its footprints in different places in the body—whether that’s a trace or if it’s a big foot is very hard to say.”
In the study, Chinese researchers said semen from six out of 38 Covid-19 survivors tested positive for the virus. Four out of the six individuals were in “the acute stage of infection” at the time of semen collection, and the remaining two “had achieved clinical recovery,” according to the paper. Later, the study said those two individuals “were recovering,” confusing some clinicians. The authors didn’t respond to requests for comment.
“If they were recovering, it’s less problematic than if they had fully recovered,” said David Baud, the head of obstetrics at Switzerland’s Lausanne University Hospital. Sick and bedridden individuals are unlikely to have a sexual drive so the risk of transmission is low.
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At least they got a happy ending.
I don’t think so.
Great!
Yet another thing ladies will no longer do to avoid to reduce getting Covid on their faces.
Great!
Yet another thing ladies will no longer do to avoid getting Covid on their faces.
You thought it was bad when infected Chinese were deliberately spitting everywhere...
Gays are not gonna be happy with that kind of news.
Especially when they can’t swallow.
There was early reporting that Covid had some HIV components, I think the spike.
But I heard Birx and Fauci say dont touch your eyes, nose or mouth — so I am guessing there is only one way for this to be sexually transmitted, which puts ol’ Monica Lewinski in peril...
When asked to comment on this Obama said, “The news about this just keeps getting worse. It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth”.
#1. Re “I want to know how the samples were collected”.
NO YOU DON”T!!
[And any rumors that bats were used to extract samples is purely fiction, I think}
#46. Re “Gays” not being happy “esp. when they can’t swallow”.
Might explain why Adam Schiff’s head is so huge and eyes are bulking. Overloaded! Have to ask Rep. Swallowswell if he knows anything about this. /sarc/my/ass
FReepmail.
Did you mean "bats"...or balls?
It's always in the last place you look!
#53. Your words give me so many opportunities to be risqué and beyond, esp. “bats” or “balls” and “semen samples”, etc.
Bats can suck semen and then can be milked for it. They would get it from the balls (and not the baseball kind).
Or, a nurse/doctor could take a baseball bat and wack the patient’s balls and get semen samples that way. OUCH!
Or they could get their staff to get it from the patient’s staff. Isn’t the English language fluid? Oh, I shouldn’t have used that word. Sorry.
Quoting from the bible, “thy rod and they staff they comfort me”. Not any more if somebody wants a “sample”.
The patient then would want to get the “bat” out of here.
Sarcing all the way. Meanwhile, do you know where your leftist congresspersons are now (safe and away from work), or do you care?
The US is always safer when Congress is NOT in session, Jeff or otherwise.
No, they’re Asian.
Actually, they say the virus cannot survive in the gut so a Lewinski is the only safe bet.
LOL...no kidding.
If one is going to become exposed to it via semen, the actual transmission of the virus likely occurs during foreplay...
She was a spitter.
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