Francesco Vaia, head of the Lázaro Spallanzani Institute for Infectious Diseases, announced that Italian scientists were the first in the world to test the possibility of the monkeypox virus in semen.
He said: “The experts at the institute were the first to discover the monkeypox virus in semen.”
He noted that virologists have always stressed that “even in the most difficult times, we, including young people, can live fully, but as long as safety conditions and regulations are followed.”
And the institute’s official statement, the monkeypox virus, “can be present in the semen of an infected person, and can also multiply.”
The researchers note: “The virus was discovered in the institute’s laboratory in the semen of an infected person six days after the onset of the fever, and it appears that it can multiply in cell culture and infect him.”
The researchers added that the monkeypox virus was detected in the semen of six out of seven patients, and studies are currently underway to determine “the resistance of the virus to semen and other biological materials, to determine the mechanism of transmission of virus from one. people to others.
According to institute experts, this study will clarify a series of questions related to the hypothesis of transmission of the monkeypox virus through intimacy.
Source: RIA Novosti
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