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Male Ebola survivors should wear condoms for three months

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New York: Men who have recovered from Ebolamust wait for unprotected

sex for at least three months, researchers have suggested.

"Our exercise demonstrated that the current recommendations to prevent

the sexual spread of Ebola are based on one mere observation," the

researchers wrote.

"Despite the evident need to conduct more research, for now,

healthcare professionals should strongly recommend sexual abstinence

or condom-protected sex for at least three months," they added.

Walter Cardona-Maya, Paula Velilla Hernandez and Daniel Henao studied

research from 1977 to 2007 on men in the convalescent phase of the

Ebola virus (symptoms were fading and they were in recovery).

They found only four studies that report male survivors of Ebola

donated convalescent semen.

For these men, the virus persisted in their semen for an average of

66.6 days, and in one case, it persisted for 91 days.

"The current Ebola virus disease outbreak is the longest and largest

we have ever seen. Nonetheless, our results clearly demonstrate how

much we ignore about it. Larger studies are needed to establish the

social, clinical and biological determinants of this neglected

disease," they noted.

The study was published in the journal Reproductive Sciences.

Credit: IANS

Kofi Oppong Kyekyeku

I am a Ghanaian Broadcast Journalist/Writer who has an interest in General News, Sports, Entertainment, Health, Lifestyle and many more.

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