Coronavirus could be sexually transmitted

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The new coronavirus can persist in men's semen even after they have begun to recover, a finding that raises the possibility the virus could be sexually transmitted, Chinese researchers said Thursday.

A team at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital tested 38 male patients treated there at the height of the pandemic in China, in January and February.

About 16% of them had evidence of the coronavirus in their semen, the team reported in the journal JAMA Network Open. About a quarter of them were in the acute stage of infection and nearly 9% of them were recovering, the team reported.

"We found that SARS-CoV-2 can be present in the semen of patients with COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 may still be detected in the semen of recovering patients," Diangeng Li of Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital in Beijing and colleagues wrote.

"Even if the virus cannot replicate in the male reproductive system, it may persist, possibly resulting from the privileged immunity of testes," the team added. Privileged immunity means the immune system cannot fully reach the region to attack viral invaders.

It's not a surprising finding. Many viruses can live in the male reproductive tract. Ebola and Zika virus were both found to spread in semen, sometimes months after a male patient had recovered.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/07/health/coronavirus-semen-china-health/index.html?utm_content=2020-05-08T05%3A57%3A18&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN

[tomsches 17,550]

Since we all have safe sex anyway nothing should change for us. 

[LaMaisonGaga 23,884]

@GrindrGays heard that?

[RenegAde 20,558]

Wow this is brand new info

Lol didnt we know that  it gets transmitted through  any form of physical contact with infected person's? 

 

[Helxig 45,360]

For f.ucks sake.

This really is like Plague Inc.  It just keeps adapting and becoming weirder and more dangerous at a rapid rate

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43 minutes ago, LaMaisonGaga said:

@GrindrGays heard that?

Oh god we're all screwed   watch this become the new 'gay STD' because the gays can't go 1-2 months without being inside random strangers during a global pandemic

[Gagi 2,750]

But you’re safe wearing a face mask during sex right?

[Yxilon 5,248]

I mean, even if it was not, still being transmitted by breathing closely or skin as a fomite

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You gheys that interrupted the social distancing for an anom grindr hookup are doomed

[darkchylde 14,857]

i thought we knew this already?

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[GaGaAst 13,124]

would anyone even have sex after being affected by virus or even for sometime after recovering?. On top of that people use... so it shouldn't be a huge issue. 

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[DrewPa 3,762]

Well, if an old lady can transmit the virus breathing next to me in a supermarket for 3 seconds, I'm not that surprised it could happen if I roll in a bed naked sharing any kind of fluids with another person for 1 hour.

[pachinko 10,755]

I mean Coronavirus is spread by droplets. Semen is a form of droplet.