Geneva – The WHO has advised all male survivors of Ebola to be tested three months after the onset of symptoms and then monthly until they know they have no risk of passing on the virus through their semen.

Bruce Aylward, Head of the WHO’s Ebola Response, said on Thursday in Geneva that isolated flare-ups of Ebola may point to a higher risk of transmission via the semen of male survivors than previously thought.

“It’s not the sex that is dangerous; it’s the semen that is dangerous. How people actually get exposed, in soiled linens or whatever, is not clear.
“Transmission through semen may explain why a few cases continue to occur even though the outbreak has been almost completely eradicated by an intense international effort, recently bolstered by the deployment of a trial vaccine in Guinea and Sierra Leone,’’ he said.
Aylward said the latest flare-up, in a village on the northern border of Sierra Leone, followed the death of a 67-year-old woman late last month, 50 days after the previous confirmed case in the region.

He said transmission chains are considered to have been broken after 42 days with no new infections.

However, Aylward said that sexual transmission was “obviously not a huge risk, because if it were we would have seen a lot more in the areas that were hardest hit at the beginning of this outbreak.”

He said this could undermine the hope of ending the outbreak in West Africa by 2015.

A clinician said on condition of anonymity, that a forthcoming study in the New England Journal of Medicine, based on around 200 survivors, found that around half still had traces of the virus in their semen after six months.
“The old advice of three months is no longer good.

“The number of people with persistent virus in their semen is much greater than expected,” clinician said.
The clinician added that the risk might not only be from sex but also from masturbation. (Reuters/NAN)
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We pray we don't experience it again. It was really a bad experience.

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“It’s not the sex that is dangerous; it’s the Fluid that is dangerous. How people actually get exposed, in soiled linens or whatever, is not
clear". Anti-thesis

Good advice.

Note that WHO does not want people living in the endemic areas to have a bad time. Viral hemmorhagic fevers are spread by exchange of bodily fluids.....and even healthy people who have recovered can be carriers....and there are also people who are immune to the virus...who could spread it via sex to a non-immune person. This is good advice......going without for 3 months prevents a reactivation of the epidemic.

Make i better stop to dey do the do..so that this ebola go comot parta parta

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just be asking for forgiveness everytime, while walking, playing...just anytime!.. even as u're reading dis post, mumble those words(God forgive me, i'm a sinner!)
the world is coming to and end!

it won't be nice to go from this 'hell'(Nigeria) to HELL!

No b how I take imagine the topic I see am....the title seems so deep, " see and masturbation.........."... but the content is shallow...............

Lemme read d post maybe I will understand by then. I dey come abeg

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pls anywan don read am coz i no sure say i understand wetin i read at all

No sex zone!!

NONSENSE

Ok

God bless us.

We all need to make sacrifices especially men in making some things work... if it's celibacy by some people for a year that would save the world from Ebola, let's encourage them to make the sacrifice.... after all if u die from ebola, no more sex or masturbation

Hmm

How does one even have the strength to have sex or masturbate while strickened with ebola or even within. 3 months of barely escaping death?

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bad news

Masturbation? how

complicated post

Na dem sabi...Even if dey die,my own na say make e no catch me o

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When u masturbate, don't ejaculate... WHO