JAMA Sub-Journal: Coronavirus found in semen in COVID-19 patients!

2020 May 13 News /BioValleyBIOON / - Chinese researchers in a study of small-scale reports that semen found in lead COVID-19 virus, but the study did not discuss whether the virus could spread through sexual activitydoctor found the virus in 38 COVID 19-hospitalized patients in 6 human semenFour of them are still very ill, and two others are recoveringreport from China Shangqiu City Hospital was recently published in the JAMANetworkOpenSource: NIAID-RMLbecause there is no long-term follow-up, so it is unclear virus in semen can survive for long, do not know whether men will transmit the virus to them at the time of intercourse companionThis resultpublished last month in the journal FertilityandSterility a comparative study of the formation of a new crown 34 Chinese patients with pneumoniaIn this study, researchers in the United States and China in 8 daysdiagnosisafter the nearly three-month period found no evidence of virus in semenDrJohnHotalingUniversity of Utah is one of the authors of the report, he said the new study involving patients with more severe symptoms worse is now recognized, primarily coronavirus droplets produced by the infected person coughs spread, these droplets are close inhaled and cause an infection Some studies have reported that blood, feces, tears, or other liquids in the eye inflammation COVID-19 patients found the virus there is evidence, including the Zika virus and Ebola virus, including other infectious virus could be spread through sexual activity, which raises questions of coronavirus Hotaling say that this is an important public health problem, but more research is needed to provide a definitive answer the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said the new study should not cause panic However, for safety reasons, "not in men 14 days before symptoms, avoid sexual contact with them might be wise to take place." (Bio Valley Bioon.com) References: Coronavirusfoundinpatients'semeninsmallChinesestudy
DiangengLietal ClinicalCharacteristicsandResultsofSemenTestsAmongMenWithCoronavirusDisease2019 , JAMANetworkOpen (2020) .DOI: 10.1001 / jamanetworkopen.2020.8292