Coronavirus can transmit through sex, say Chinese researchers in shocking finding
Coronavirus update: The team of researchers stated that even if the COVID virus cannot replicate in the male reproductive system, it might persist. Coronavirus, like many others including Ebola and Zika, might be able to live in the male reproductive tract
- May 9, 2020,
- Updated May 9, 2020 3:25 PM IST
Chinese researchers have found out that coronavirus could stay in men's semen even after they are on their way to recovery. There is, hence, a possibility that corona could be sexually transmitted, said the research.
According to a report in CNN, a team at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital landed at this report after testing 38 male patients at a time when coronavirus was at its peak in the country in the months of January and February. Out of the subjects, 16 per cent had evidence of coronavirus in their semen. A quarter of them were severely infected and around 9 per cent of them were recovering, the scientists mentioned in the JAMA Network Open journal.
"We found that SARS-CoV-2 can be present in the semen of patients with COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 may still be detected in the semen of recovering patients," stated Diangeng Li of Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital in Beijing.
Chinese researchers have found out that coronavirus could stay in men's semen even after they are on their way to recovery. There is, hence, a possibility that corona could be sexually transmitted, said the research.
According to a report in CNN, a team at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital landed at this report after testing 38 male patients at a time when coronavirus was at its peak in the country in the months of January and February. Out of the subjects, 16 per cent had evidence of coronavirus in their semen. A quarter of them were severely infected and around 9 per cent of them were recovering, the scientists mentioned in the JAMA Network Open journal.
"We found that SARS-CoV-2 can be present in the semen of patients with COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 may still be detected in the semen of recovering patients," stated Diangeng Li of Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital in Beijing.