The novel coronavirus is not transmitted through sexual contact, a new study by the University of Utah reveals. However, the sample size was too small to draw a definitive conclusion.
As Yahoo Life reports, the Utah team partnered with scientists from Columbia University and Cornell University, as well as with a team of scientists in Wuhan, China — where the virus is believed to have originated — to analyze semen samples from 32 men who had tested positive for the virus.
None of the men had any traces of the virus in their semen, effectively ruling out the possibility that the virus can be transmitted via sex (sex involving males, to be specific).
“The virus requires two receptors to get into cells… and basically, in testes cells, none of them showed both these receptors. We’ve shown preliminary evidence that it doesn’t appear in the semen,” says Dr. James M. Hotaling.
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