Posted on 05/02/2015 9:57:07 AM PDT by Rockitz
The deadly Ebola virus may be transmitted through sex long after a person has been cured, a major finding that could change how the virus is combated.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigators looked into the case of a Monrovia, Liberia, woman who contracted the disease. The agency identified only one link to Ebola: unprotected sex with an Ebola survivor who was not presenting symptoms.
Ebola can only be passed through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person showing symptoms. But health officials have been aware of another problem: The virus can remain in semen for nearly half a year after symptoms emerge, even after the patient has fully recovered. A survivor could still potentially infect a sexual partner with the virus, which appears to have happened in Monrovia in March, when the woman in question had sexual relations with a man who had been discharged the previous October.
A separate instance of "possible sexual transmission of Ebola has been reported, although the accompanying evidence was inconclusive," the CDC said in a report Friday.
The agency recommends that "contact with semen from male Ebola survivors be avoided until more information regarding the duration and infectiousness of viral shedding in body fluids is known. If male survivors have sex (oral, vaginal or anal), a condom should be used correctly and consistently every time."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
LOL! True, dat!
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
Right... because actual laboratory experience working with Ebola, and reading hundreds of research articles about it makes me a shill.
As always, I try to give the most accurate information that is known to the scientific community.
Let’s see it , Shill.
Talk a big game but not one ounce of proof…
It is all copy and paste
Update on Ebola:
Ebola Returns in “Cured” Doctor
Dr. Ian Crozier, who was seemingly cured of Ebola last October, is facing the disease again. It’s been lurking in his left eye all along. Fading sight, severe pain and strong pressure led doctors to the discovery, while Crozier also faced joint and muscle pain, fatigue, and hearing loss. The color of his left eye also changed from blue to green. Crozier became infected with Ebola while working as a volunteer for the World Health Organization in Sierra Leone, where a large portion of infections began. Long-term effects about the disease have not been closely studied due to the limited number of outbreaks previously reported. Similar accounts are being reported in West Africa.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/05/07/ebola-returns-in-cured-doctor.html
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1500306?query=featured_home&#t=article
Ping to post 25...
Thanks, caww!
Most of our disagreements have been on more speculative items for which there is no peer reviewed research or information.
In this case, she is accurate as far as I have been able to determine, and the reservoir lifespan of the virus in the male has only been extended, not refuted.
If you check out post 25, it appears there are other bodily fluids the virus can camp out in...(vitreous/aqueous humor).
hecky durn.
30,200,000 Africans?
When was that, like 125,000 bc?
All the figures I see the population of Africa is over a billion...
My bad, and thanks for catching that. (Now they are really going to be busy....)
A very good friend of mine actually walked across Africa as a youth.
Then, as an adult, went back to Namibia - TWICE!! - to teach computing.
His pictures and experiences were quite amazing.
Africa is, in general, dirt poor. We’re talking a dollar a day being good money.
But the people have a strength and a freedom behind them that is indescribable.
I should post something that has torn at my heart for a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPTA4g5rGrs
regards,
djf
Oh, and by the way, most of civilized Africa is Christian.
That is unfortunate. The NEJM article indicates that he has improved, however.
Some researchers have found Ebolavirus lurking inside the eye. I wondered why they were taking samples of the vitreous humor, but I guess if there are symptoms, there would be reason to do so.
The virus tends to lurk in areas that are shielded from the immune system. The inside of the eye is unlikely to pose a transmission risk, but the presence of virus in other reservoirs is certainly a problem. Given that persistence, the 42 day Ebola-free period before an outbreak is declared over in a region may need to be rethought.
Speaking of that, Liberia is about to be declared clear, and case counts in Sierra Leone and Guinea are trending downwards. I’m looking forward to this thing being over.
That makes two of us.
I am inclined to think that the virus, rather than being totally done away with, has mutated to the point it is losing it’s lethality.
But that doesn’t mean it’s not lethal to some. Or even to many...
It will be very interesting to watch this and see how it plays out.
...”I am looking forward to this thing being over.”....Good grief. Do you have ebola? Are you staying in country? You morons are exactly the reason- for political gains being made by bullshit money relief orgs.
I have been incredibly busy with Ebola. I want to be busy with OTHER public health threats.
A recent analysis showed that the mutations in the West Africa Ebola virus have not substantially changed its pathogenicity. We will know more as more studies are done.
What are the other health threats?
What the cr**, Monte?
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