No Sex in the time of Ebola: Why celibacy is key even for the cured

[GBCW 397]

Sex could keep the Ebola epidemic alive even after the World Health Organization (WHO) declares an area free of the disease, one of the discoverers of the deadly virus said on Tuesday.

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"In a convalescent male, the virus can persist in semen for at least 70 days; one study suggests persistence for more than 90 days," the WHO said in an information note on Monday.

"Certainly, the advice has to be for survivors to use a condom, to not have unprotected sex, for 90 days," said Peter Piot, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a discoverer of Ebola in 1976.

"If we would apply the rule for double the time, that would be 180 days -- six months. I think it (90 days) is probably a compromise, for practicality," he told a news conference in Geneva.

Ebola spreads via bodily fluids such as blood and saliva, but it has also been detected in breast milk and urine, as well as semen, the WHO says.

http://www.firstpost.com/world/no-sex-in-the-time-of-ebola-why-celibacy-is-key-even-for-the-cured-1759757.html

[Dan and Judy 614]

Sex could keep the Ebola epidemic alive even after the World Health Organization (WHO) declares an area free of the disease, one of the discoverers of the deadly virus said on Tuesday.

...

"In a convalescent male, the virus can persist in semen for at least 70 days; one study suggests persistence for more than 90 days," the WHO said in an information note on Monday.

"Certainly, the advice has to be for survivors to use a condom, to not have unprotected sex, for 90 days," said Peter Piot, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a discoverer of Ebola in 1976.

"If we would apply the rule for double the time, that would be 180 days -- six months. I think it (90 days) is probably a compromise, for practicality," he told a news conference in Geneva.

Ebola spreads via bodily fluids such as blood and saliva, but it has also been detected in breast milk and urine, as well as semen, the WHO says.

http://www.firstpost.com/world/no-sex-in-the-time-of-ebola-why-celibacy-is-key-even-for-the-cured-1759757.html

Who says?

[GBCW 397]

Peter Piot, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a discoverer of Ebola in 1976.

[Dan and Judy 614]

Peter Piot, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a discoverer of Ebola in 1976.

read the last line of first post.

[MyLittlePony 340]

If you take a piss in bathroom stall next to another person taking a piss. A few drops of piss land on

you from the person carrying Ebola then your screwed?

[Dakine10 5,452]

This doesn't sound good.

In the history of humanity, nothing that requires celibacy as a cure has ever worked. For obvious reasons.