Thursday, October 9, 2014

Ebola Virus Can Live Long in Sperm

Having sex can keep the Ebola epidemic alive even after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a territory free of the disease, because the Ebola virus can live longer in sperm. It was said by one of the inventors of the Ebola virus on Tuesday (07/10/2014). In this regard, the WHO plans to declare this week that Nigeria and Senegal have been freed from Ebola positive after 42 days of no cases of infection. Limit of 42 days by the WHO were taken from the incubation period that can live up to 21 days. To be totally safe positive, drawn boundary two times longer than the lifetime of the virus. "In male patients convalescing, the virus can persist in semen for at least 70 days. One study even showed that the virus is still there for more than 90 days," wrote WHO in the notification letter, as quoted by Reuters on Thursday (9 / 10/2014). Professor Peter Piot of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical told a press conference in Geneva, if the rule is applied two times longer then it takes at least 180 days to a region virtually free of Ebola. "Of course his advice is for victims to use condoms and not having unprotected sex for 90 days," Piot said that the first discoverer of Ebola in 1976, the WHO says Ebola is spread through bodily fluids such as blood and saliva. But note also the virus present in breast milk (ASI), urine, and semen. WHO also said to sweat yet discovered the Ebola virus that lives out through that route. Already more than 3,400 people known to have died from Ebola outbreak worst in the history of the world. Most of the dead came from the three countries in West Africa namely Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. latest health information can be found in http://ukdi.net

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