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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LOL!
Does the popularity of this report in the media define the word “clickbait”?
One might guess that a Full Service nurse was on the staff.
With a LONG needle!
“I want to know how the samples were collected”
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And why!
“Hey, staff, I got an idea!!!”
When examined microscopically they were all found to be smiling.
There’s “little” demand for Chinese Wi Wi’s
- Anthony "Just No Handshaking" Fauci
“The new coronavirus has been found in the semen of infected individuals...”
What man hating womens group put this out?
What? So it’s possibly an STD after all.
Why would anyone publish anything from “Chinese researchers”?
That was a way poor means of phrasing it. LOLOL!!!!!!
Semen-to-blood pathway would make it a HTD (homosexually transmitted disease) in addition to a respiratory disease.
Found large quantities of human testicles in the Wuhan wet market.
Beat me to it.
I was going to comment on “viral load” choice of phrasing.
Definitely chuckle inducing for us of a slightly sophomoric humor bent.
Not needed at all.
This kind of thing does happen with many infectious agents.
I want to know how the samples were collected -——
By finger rape of the prostrate area by a medical person.
Or by electric extraction the way horses’ stuff is harvested for breeding
racehorses. The horse does not get to have fun, or rarely unless the mare belongs
to the same owner. They guard the stuff as it sells for a lot of money.
swish it around, then spit in this cup...
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