A MAN who contracted Dengue fever after a trip to Thailand had the virus in his semen, even after he had healed from the illness, pointing to troubling new evidence that the disease, like Zika, can be contracted sexually…
A study by the National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI) detected the presence of the virus in an Italian man’s sperm.
Dengue fever is caused by the Dengue virus and is usually contracted through mosquitoes. There is no cure for the illness.
The Dengue virus is part of the Flaviviridae family, the same scientific system that includes other viruses like Zika, Yellow Fever and encephalaitis, with extreme symptoms including neurological disorders, heart disease and liver failure.
The study, published in Eurosurveillance , shows for the first time the presence of the Dengue virus in the semen of a man who had recently healed following a recent infection with dengue.
Researchers at INMI found that the virus persists in active replication in the seminal fluid and in particular in its cellular fraction up to 37 days after the onset of symptoms.
We will probably see a new STD or two eventually emerge as the degeneracy peaks and the collapse brings the pandemic into play. It seems lots of viruses survive in the semen after symptoms abate. All you need is to add a little Darwinian selection to optimize that trait of survival in the testes after clearance of the viral load in the blood, and a lot of repetition to find the right mutation, and you will have a new virus designed to spread through sexual contact and persist in the semen.
Coincidentally enough I would imagine it would at first be best designed to travel from males to their partners, and thus would savage the gay community long before it moved well through the heterosexual community. Don’t be a rabbit in the Apocalypse.
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More evidence sleeping around isn’t good for men either. STDs have been despised throughout history for causing defects, abortion and retardation.