S*x and M@sturbation are hampering efforts to wipe out Ebola as survivors can still pass on the virus six months after being cured

S*x and M@sturbation are hampering efforts to wipe out Ebola as survivors can still pass on the virus six months after being cured

Se x and mas turbation may be hampering the eradication of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa due to transmission through male survivor’s semen up to six months after they have been cured.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) had hoped for an end to the deadly outbreak by the end of the year but isolated flare-ups continue in areas beleaguered by the disease.

Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO’s Ebola response, said they advised all male survivors to be tested three months after the onset of symptoms and then monthly until they know they have no risk of passing on the virus through their semen.

But a forthcoming study in the New England Journal of Medicine, based on around 200 survivors, found that around half still had traces of the virus in their semen after six months, a clinician familiar with the study told Reuters.

 ‘The old advice of three months is no longer good,’ the clinician said. ‘The number of people with persistent virus in their semen is much greater than expected.’

The clinician, who was not authorised to speak about the study and spoke anonymously, added that the risk might not only be from se x but also from masturbation.

‘It’s not the se x that is dangerous, it’s the semen that is dangerous,’ said Mr Aylward, who mentioned the study during a news conference but did not give details. ‘How people actually get exposed, in soiled linens or whatever, is not clear.’

Transmission through semen may explain why a few cases continue to occur even though the outbreak has been almost completely eradicated by an intense international effort.

Attempts to curb the disease were recently bolstered by the deployment of a trial vaccine in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
S*x and M@sturbation are hampering efforts to wipe out Ebola as survivors can still pass on the virus six months after being cured

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