Small concentrations of the novel coronavirus can be found in the semen of some men who have tested positive for the pathogen, raising the remote possibility that the virus can be transmitted sexually, Reuters reports.
A team of physicians at China’s Shangqiu Municipal Hospital tested semen samples of 38 men who had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (the scientific name of the pathogen which has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, colloquially referred to as the “novel coronavirus”). Of the over 3 dozen men, 6 of them tested positive for the pathogen in their semen.
That some men, albeit a comparatively-small percentage of them, tested positive for the virus in their semen means that the remote possibility exists that the virus can be transmitted sexually.
“If it could be proved that SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted sexually… (that) might be a critical part of the prevention, especially considering the fact that SARS-CoV-2 was detected in the semen of recovering patients,” the team notes.
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