The novel “Chinese Wuhan Virus” has been discovered in the “semen” of infected male individuals, according to Chinese researchers, potentially raising the prospect that the virus could potentially be “sexually transmitted.”
However, the study also raises questions: “It doesn’t explain how much viral load was present in the sperm, nor does it examine whether or not the virus could be transmitted through sexual activity.”
The study, conducted at China’s Shangqiu Municipal Hospital, is described in a research letter published by the JAMA Network of medical journals.
This research is the first to detect the virus in reproductive fluids. Further study is needed to understand whether “safe sex” practices should be part of COVID-19 prevention efforts, according to medical experts who read the paper.
“These are intriguing results,” John Brooks, chief medical officer for the “U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s” (CDC’s) coronavirus response. “But it doesn’t mean that semen are infectious,” he told The Wall Street Journal.
“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.”
Authorities believe the “Chinese Wuhan Virus” mainly spreads from droplets produced when infected people cough, which are inhaled by people nearby. “No known U.S. infections have spread through sexual contact, yet” Brooks said.
Chinese researchers said “semen” from six out of 38 coronavirus survivors tested positive for the virus. According to the paper’s abstract, 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.”
Liona Poon, an obstetrics and gynecology professor extracting some semen.
Liona Poon, an obstetrics and gynecology professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told the Journal that the study falls short of explaining how much “viral load” was present in semen.
“Was it fragments or whole virus particulate? Until the virus is isolated and cultured, we don’t know if it’s infectious,” she said.
I just don’t know what else to say. One has to wonder if this article was written by a “Chinese Communist Party” mole within Fox News. The names of the people involved…“the imagery/innuendo/double entente, the hilarious comments.” The lines between parody and reality are just about gone.
Surprised Fox news hasn’t taken this article down or at least blocked the comments. This is one of the many times the comments are better than the article itself!
Check with your local Governor when you should continue with “safe sex” activities.
No sex for corpulent, obese Illinois Gov. Pritzker while his wife M.K. sun bathes “mask free” on their $12 million equestrian estate in Wellington, Florida.
“Poon, ObGyn, Semen and Viral Load.” That’s enough internet for me today.
