Sperm containing virus raises small risk of COVID-19 spread via sex -study

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Chinese researchers who tested sperm of men infected with COVID-19 found that a minority of them had the new coronavirus in their semen, opening up a small chance the disease could be transmitted sexually, scientists said on Thursday. A study by doctors at China's Shangqiu Municipal Hospital of

LONDON, May 7 - Chinese researchers who tested sperm of men infected with COVID-19 found that a minority of them had the new coronavirus in their semen, opening up a small chance the disease could be transmitted sexually, scientists said on Thursday.

The researchers said that while the findings were preliminary and based on only a small number of infected men, more research is needed to see whether sexual transmission might play a role in the spreading COVID-19 pandemic. "If it could be proved that SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted sexually ... might be a critical part of the prevention," they said,"especially considering the fact that SARS-CoV-2 was detected in the semen of recovering patients."

A previous small study of 12 COVID-19 patients in China in February and March found that all of them tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 in semen samples.

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