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Sunday, January 10, 2016
... A virologist at the Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, has suggested that Zika virus infection is the only vector-borne disease that may be transmitted by sexual intercourse.
The first suggestion that you could get Zika virus infection from both a mosquito as well as a sexual partner came in 2008, when an American scientist contracted Zika in Senegal and fell ill a few days after returning home to northern Colorado. His wife got Zika soon after, even though she had not travelled anywhere far for several months. More weight was placed on this suspicion by research published in 2015 that found the presence of the Zika virus in semen.
Researchers have commented, however, that this does not mean sexual transmission will take over from mosquitoes as the main means of the spread of the Zika virus, but it certainly would make prevention more difficult than simply wearing mosquito repellant.
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CSU researcher says he gave wife Zika virus through sex
January 21, 2016
KUSA - The Zika virus has become the number one health concern across Latin America. Health officials say the illness, which can lead to birth defects in newborns, is spread primarily by infected mosquitoes. Though a Fort Collins man said he and his wife learned the hard way that human to human transmission of the Zika virus – is possible.
Back in 2008, Dr. Brian Foy, a researcher and professor at Colorado State University took a six-week trip to Senegal with a grad student to study malaria. While they were there, both men became infected with the Zika virus, though they didn’t realize it until they returned home to Colorado.
“We were in this area – we were living in very rough, rural conditions and were getting bit by mosquitos and we knew arboviruses were transmitted there,” said Foy, “I started showing symptoms similar of arboviruses; rash, photophobia, headaches, I was sort of out of my head for a weekend.”
Not knowing which virus he contracted while overseas, he gave himself a blood test. While awaiting the results, Foy said his wife began showing similar symptoms as well.
“That’s when I was like, Okay, we need to document even more of this to figure it out,” said Foy.
[h=3]Abstract[/h] In December 2013, during a Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in French Polynesia, a patient in Tahiti sought treatment for hematospermia, and ZIKV was isolated from his semen. ZIKV transmission by sexual intercourse has been previously suspected. This observation supports the possibility that ZIKV could be transmitted sexually.
... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25625872
