Deadly virus detected in sperm of survivors months after recovery

The deadly virus is passed on through contact with body fluids and killed more than 11,000 in ravaged western Africa and the US in 2014 and 2015.

The epidemic has now been declared over but researchers have monitored 450 survivors of both sexes for a year, testing tears, saliva, faeces, vaginal fluids and semen every three months thereafter.

And worryingly the Ebola virus was detected in 10 specimens taken from eight men, for up to a whopping nine months after recovery.

publish - By Bradley Jolly / Published 15th May 2016

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