Study Finds COVID-19 in Semen, Contradicting Previous Research

Last month, we told you how researchers at the University of Utah said it’s unlikely that COVID-19 can be transmitted through semen.

Now, a separate study has cast doubt on those findings, and raised the possibility that the virus can be spread through sex, which researchers have said would have major implications.

The Associated Press reports: Doctors detected the virus in semen from six of 38 men hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. Four were still very sick with the disease while two were recovering. There was no long-term follow-up so it is not known how long the virus may remain in semen or if men can spread it to their partners during sex. The results contrast with a study of 34 Chinese men with COVID-19 published last month in the journal Fertility and Sterility. U.S. and Chinese researchers found no evidence of virus in semen tested between eight days and almost three months after diagnosis.

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