Coronavirus: Is Sex Safe During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Your Boyfriend/Husband May Be Dangerous!
The novel coronavirus may also be lurking in semen
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, scientists have been deepening their understanding of how the novel coronavirus affects the human body and how it is transmitted from person to person. In recent months, scientists have learned that the virus can survive on some surfaces for 3 days, and can stay in tiny droplets for about 30 minutes. It has also been detected in human saliva, urine and feces. presence. therefore, many government have to ask people staying-at-home in order to stop and contain the spread of coronavirus. And it brought some good result so far.
CDC and WHO have declared lots of guidelines to people saying how to prevent the spread and how to protect. Obviously, Coronavirus is new to the world, to the scientist, to the officials. Now, a new found from a Chinese research team, published in JAMA Network Open of Journal of the American Medical Association, says that the novel coronavirus was found in the semen of infections. OMG, that says that coronavirus is possible to be transmitted by sex. Surprise really to every one, and specially to those who are in love, lol.
The good is there is no any evidence that any infections was infected by sex. At the same time, detailed information about the shedding of coronavirus, survival time, concentration in semen, etc. needs further study.
The researchers detected the genetic material of the novel coronavirus in the semen of 6 patients, accounting for about 16%. The paper points out that 4 of the patients with positive semen samples are in the acute stage of coronavirus infection. It is particularly noteworthy that the other two patients who tested positive for the virus were in recovery.
From the beginning of the outbreak, public health experts have been saying that although coronavirus can be spread by kissing, they do not think it can be spread by sex. This new discovery does not contradict this. The New York Times said that it was worth noting that although the researchers detected the genetic material of coronavirus in the semen. This study does not prove that these virus particles are “live” or capable of spreading infections.
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Medical experts said that this is only a preliminary study, and many questions remain to be further explored, such as how much viral load is in the sperm and whether the virus can be spread through sexual activity. In addition, it is not clear how long coronavirus stays in the semen, because the patients participating in the study still have symptoms, or only recently recovered.
Liona Poon, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told the Wall Street Journal that the study did not indicate how much viral load was in the semen, whether it was residual virus fragments or intact virus particles. And before the virus is isolated and cultivated, it is impossible to know whether it is infectious.
Dr. Stanley Palmer, a professor of microbiology, immunology and pediatrics at the University of Iowa, USA, also said that a positive detection of novel coronavirus in semen does not mean the presence of an infectious virus. He said: “This is an interesting finding, but it must be confirmed that there is infectious virus in the semen, not just the RNA of the virus.”
He also added that unlike the Zika virus carried in the blood, the novel coronavirus mainly infects humans through the oral or nasal route. At present, there is still no evidence that a person may be infected with the novel coronavirus through sexual contact or intrauterine fertilization.
Anyway, people are brave enough and would like to take more risk during the life to make a fantastic life. Experts says there is no evidence of infection, in another words, there is no evidence of non-infection, right? Condom could be purchased anywhere, and cheap enough. Take care of your love, man!