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Deadly virus detected in sperm of survivors months after recovery
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Tue, 2016-05-17 08:37 — davidmc
The deadly virus is passed on through contact with body fluids and killed more than 11,000 in ravaged western Africa and the US in 2014 and 2015.
The epidemic has now been declared over but researchers have monitored 450 survivors of both sexes for a year, testing tears, saliva, faeces, vaginal fluids and semen every three months thereafter.
And worryingly the Ebola virus was detected in 10 specimens taken from eight men, for up to a whopping nine months after recovery.
publish - By Bradley Jolly / Published 15th May 2016
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Long-lasting Persistence - Ebola Virus Genetic Material in Semen
CLICK HERE - STUDY - New Evidence of Long-lasting Persistence of Ebola Virus Genetic Material in Semen of Survivors
Ebola virus present in semen up to nine months after recovery
drugtodayonline.com - May 17, 2016
The Ebola virus can remain in the semen of the survivors up to nine months after Ebola is cured says a new study.
A cohort of more than 700 adults and children who survived the Ebola epidemic in 2014 in Western Africa were examined in Guinea since November 2014. This study was associated with the PostEboGui programme.
The researchers from the University of Conakry and other team members examined the first 450 patients, both men and women, from the PostEboGui programme for at least one year, using their body fluids for this study. . . .
. . . Till nine months from recovery, Ebola virus was found in specimens taken from eight men.
The researchers also found that the virus in semen decreases with time, between the first and third months it was present in 28.5 percent of samples and in the fourth to and sixth months it was detected in 16 percent and subsequently 6.5 percent between the seventh and ninth months and then became zero after 12 months.
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Ebola RNA Persistence in Semen of Ebola Virus Disease Survivors
CLICK HERE - NEJM - Ebola RNA Persistence in Semen of Ebola Virus Disease Survivors - Preliminary Report - October 14, 2015
Ebola transmission in Sierra Leone by unconventional routes
Some of the final cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone were transmitted via unconventional routes, such as semen and breastmilk, according to the largest analysis to date of the tail-end of the epidemic.
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/sexual-transmission-involved-in-tail-end-of-ebola-epidemic
Rapid outbreak sequencing of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone identifies transmission chains linked to sporadic cases (20 page .PDF file)
http://ve.oxfordjournals.org/sites/default/files/Outbreak_sequencing_of_Ebola_virus.pdf