Coronavirus detected in semen; jury's out on whether virus can be sexually transmitted
, published Thursday in the journal JAMA Network Open, doesn’t address whether this means the coronavirus can be sexually transmitted.
Doctors detected the virus in semen from six of 38 men who had been hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19. Four were at the height of their infections when the samples were collected, and two had already “achieved clinical recovery,” according to the report by a team from Shangqiu Municipal Hospital in China.
The samples were collected in January and February. The researchers didn’t follow up with the men, so it’s not known how long the virus remained in their semen, or whether they could have spread it to their partners during sex.The findings contrast with a study of 34 Chinese men with COVID-19 that was published last month in the journal Fertility and Sterility. In that study, U.S.
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