Sperm containing virus raises small risk of COVID-19 spread via sex: study

[webfact]

Sperm containing virus raises small risk of COVID-19 spread via sex: study

By Kate Kelland

 

FILE PHOTO: An undated scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow), also known as novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. NIAID-RML/Handout via REUTERS.

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese researchers who tested sperm of men infected with COVID-19 found that a minority of them had the new coronavirus in their semen, opening up a small chance the disease could be transmitted sexually, scientists said on Thursday.

 

A study by doctors at China's Shangqiu Municipal Hospital of 38 men hospitalised with the disease found that six of them, or 16%, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in their semen.

 

The researchers said that while the findings were preliminary and based on only a small number of infected men, more research is needed to see whether sexual transmission might play a role in the spreading COVID-19 pandemic.

 

"Further studies are required with respect to the detailed information about virus shedding, survival time and concentration in semen," the team wrote in a study published in JAMA Network Open.

 

"If it could be proved that SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted sexually ... (that) might be a critical part of the prevention," they said, "especially considering the fact that SARS-CoV-2 was detected in the semen of recovering patients."

 

Independent experts said the findings were interesting but should be viewed with caution and in the context of other small studies that have not found the new coronavirus in sperm.

 

A previous small study of 12 COVID-19 patients in China in February and March found that all of them tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 in semen samples.

 

Allan Pacey, a professor of andrology at Britain's Sheffield University, said the studies should not be seen as conclusive, since there were some technical difficulties in testing semen for viruses. He said the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in sperm did not show whether it is active and capable of causing infection.

 

"However, we should not be surprised if the virus which causes COVID-19 is found in the semen of some men, since this has been shown with many other viruses such as Ebola and Zika," he said.

 

Sheena Lewis, a professor of reproductive medicine at Queen’s University Belfast, stressed that this was a "very small study" and said its findings were in keeping with other small studies showing low or no SARS-CoV-2 in tests of semen samples.

 

"However, the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 on male reproduction are not yet known," she said.

 

(Reporting by Kate Kelland, editing by Mark Heinrich)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-05-08

 

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[Mama Noodle]

OK but try having sex staying 6 feet apart. 

[Puchaiyank]

Further studies are required!  Um hum!

[Canuck1966]

I think the kissing beforehand might be a more obvious way of transmission

Who funds this rubbish?

[ukrules]

Respiratory tract infection?

[brokenbone]

28 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

OK but try having sex staying 6 feet apart. 

i could do it with a stretch

[PatOngo]

Maybe they can breed another million Chinese over the weekend! ????

[meechai]

54 minutes ago, webfact said:

A study by doctors at China's Shangqiu Municipal Hospital of 38 men hospitalized with the disease found that six of them, or 16%, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in their semen.

So let me get this straight......

 

38 men hospitalized has a nurse or? come around & milk them?

 

What insurance policy included that happy ending I wonder? ????

[faraday]

29 minutes ago, brokenbone said:

i could do it with a stretch

Is that what's called Jelquing, or am I confusing it with a place in China....?

[Fex Bluse]

51 minutes ago, Canuck1966 said:

I think the kissing beforehand might be a more obvious way of transmission

Who funds this rubbish?

Nobody kisses anymore. And kissing is nasty. Oral sex the thing to do but seems like it will be risky now 

Edited May 7, 2020 by Fex Bluse

[Canuck1966]

1 minute ago, Fex Bluse said:

Nobody kisses anymore. And kissing is nasty. Would you kiss the random massage girl giving you hand job? 

I know what you mean but I don't think this study is about hookers and Johns

 

Btw I would never go with a hooker who didn't kiss! 

[Kelsall]

wank3rs

Edited May 7, 2020 by Kelsall

[PatOngo]

44 minutes ago, meechai said:

So let me get this straight......

 

38 men hospitalized has a nurse or? come around & milk them?

 

What insurance policy included that happy ending I wonder? ????

Maybe the to$$ers did it unaided!

Edited May 7, 2020 by PatOngo

[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, brokenbone said:

2 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

OK but try having sex staying 6 feet apart. 

i could do it with a stretch

Or perhaps use bunk beds.

As long as the guy is on the top, otherwise he'd get his own back.

[Skallywag]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese researchers who tested sperm of men infected with COVID-19 found that a minority of them had the new coronavirus in their semen,

Come on.  Can scientists please get back to researching a vaccine please. 

These researches need to "hold back" their urges at a time like this 

 

[khwaibah]

[Berkshire]

2 hours ago, Fex Bluse said:

Nobody kisses anymore. And kissing is nasty. Oral sex the thing to do but seems like it will be risky now 

"Nobody kisses anymore."  Seriously?  Not sure if you're being facetious, but I couldn't even get an erection without the kissing.  Maybe I'm just an old romantic.

[Relocated]

Did they have patients to masturbate to collect sperm? 

[Boomer6969]

This study is a masturbators' masterpiece.

[bluesofa]

2 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

This study is a masturbators' masterpiece.

In fact a magnificent masturbator's masterpiece magnanimously made.

[ourdon]

Sars-CoV-2 is a respiratory virus.

 

Jaysus me Son!!!  Just what kind of sperm do you have ????

 

????

[kotsak]

 

[bluesofa]

26 minutes ago, ourdon said:

Sars-CoV-2 is a respiratory virus.

 

Jaysus me Son!!!  Just what kind of sperm do you have ????

 

????

Are you sure you're not thinking of the world's three greatest lies:

Of course I love you. The cheque's in the post. I promise I won't xxxx in your mouth.

[Mac98]

2 hours ago, Skallywag said:

Come on.  Can scientists please get back to researching a vaccine please. 

These researches need to "hold back" their urges at a time like this 

 

Researchers rely on grants for funding their yachts. Anything that can be used to scare the population into chastity is always a headline/political/grant winner. Remember we were all going to be dead of AIDS in 1986? 

[crazykopite]

How much were they paid to have a Ham Shank ????????

[bluesofa]

9 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

How much were they paid to have a Ham Shank ????????

Or a J. Arthur - same same.

[Mick501]

Shhhh!   I've convinced the girlfriend that sperm is a preventative for Covid if consumed daily.   This news story is fake news!

[Almer]

6 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

OK but try having sex staying 6 feet apart. 

No comment

[tifino]

6 hours ago, ukrules said:

Respiratory tract infection?

yes, that could make this story, hard to swallow

[bluesofa]

6 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

OK but try having sex staying 6 feet apart. 

Thinking about it, if it was a threesome then there's the chance of keeping six feet apart...