{"id":14708,"date":"2020-05-19T04:55:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T04:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=14708"},"modified":"2020-05-19T04:55:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T04:55:58","slug":"coronavirus-can-be-sexually-transmitted-as-scientists-find-traces-in-semen-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=14708","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus \u2018can be sexually transmitted\u2019 as scientists find traces in semen \u2013 Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CORONAVIRUS can be passed on during sex, a new study suggests. Researchers claim that men who had recovered from the infection still had Covid-19 in their semen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts suggest men should consider abstaining from lovemaking or use a condom to help halt the spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese scientists analysed the output of 38 patients who had caught the illness \u2013 15 who were still in hospital and 23 who had recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall six men, or 16 per cent, had the virus SARS-CoV-2, which causes coronavirus, in their sperm sample \u2013 and two of them were already over their illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists say it suggests the bug can persist much longer in the testes and could be spread later through sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infectious<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing in the journal JAMA Network Open, researcher Dr Shixi Zhang, from the Shangqiu Municipal Hospital, says \u201cthe survival of SARS-CoV-2 in a recovering patient\u2019s semen maintains the likelihood to infect others\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added if bigger trials show coronavirus is passed on during sex, the recovering men should be encouraged to \u201cabstain or use condoms\u201d to prevent transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brit experts said the findings were \u201cinteresting\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof Allan Pacey, Professor of Andrology at Sheffield University, said: \u201cIt shows that RNA for the virus responsible for Covid-19 can be detected in the semen of a proportion 16 per cent of men with a confirmed infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis opens up the possibility that one route of infection may be through sexual contact, although this was not confirmed in the paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHowever, we should not be surprised if the virus which causes Covid-19 is found in the semen of some men since this is been shown with many other viruses such as Ebola and Zika.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others scientists said the study raises \u201cimportant questions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Richard Sharpe, from Edinburgh University and a Member of the Society of Endocrinology, said: \u201cIt found a minority of men who have had Covid-19 infection diagnosed in a hospital, also exhibit the presence of Covid-19 virus in their semen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis included men in the active stage of infection but also a couple of men who were in the clinical stages of recovery from Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis finding raises the possibility that Covid-19 might also be transmissible via semen and thus via sexual contact, perhaps including during the recovery phase.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said learning how long the virus persists in semen samples should be a priority to prevent the bug from spreading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Source: The Sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORONAVIRUS can be passed on during sex, a new study suggests. 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