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Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Taasisi ya Utafiti wa Virusi, Prof Pontiano Kaleebu, amesema ingawa Ebola haichukuliwi kama Ugonjwa wa zinaa katika baadhi ya tafiti, Wataalamu wamegundua uwepo wa Virusi hivyo kwenye mbegu za kiume baada ya kupona.
Dk Ataro Ayella, mtaalam wa magonjwa ya kliniki, amesema Ebola inaweza kuambukizwa kwa ngono na virusi vinaweza kukaa kwenye mbegu za kiume hadi siku 90, kitu kinachoweza kupelekea Maambukizi hata kama mwathirika hana dalili za Ebola.
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Ebola survivors have to wait for at least three months before having sex again unless they use condoms as one the preventive ways to curb spread of the disease, the Ministry of Health has advised.
“Before returning home, Ebola patients will have their blood tested in the laboratory to ensure the virus is no longer in their body. However, people who have recovered from the illness should not have sex for at least three months unless they use condoms,” the Ministry of Health’s advisory reads in part.
The executive director of Uganda Virus Research Institute, Prof Pontiano Kaleebu, said although Ebola is not considered a sexually transmitted infection, in some studies, experts have found the virus in sperms after recovery.
Dr Ataro Ayella, a clinical epidemiologist, who has managed previous Ebola outbreaks in Bundibugyo in 2007, Liberia in 2014, and DR Congo in 2019, told Monitor in a separate interview yesterday that Ebola can be transmitted sexually, and the virus can stay in the semen for up to three months. This means transmission can occur even if the survivor has no symptoms of the disease.
“Besides having got cured of the disease, a relapse or reinfection could occur... The reinfection depends on the immunity of the person and other co-existing diseases,” Dr Ayella added.
Scientists say studies done in Liberia indicate that a woman was infected with Ebola following sexual intercourse with a male Ebola survivor.
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Dk Ataro Ayella, mtaalam wa magonjwa ya kliniki, amesema Ebola inaweza kuambukizwa kwa ngono na virusi vinaweza kukaa kwenye mbegu za kiume hadi siku 90, kitu kinachoweza kupelekea Maambukizi hata kama mwathirika hana dalili za Ebola.
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Ebola survivors have to wait for at least three months before having sex again unless they use condoms as one the preventive ways to curb spread of the disease, the Ministry of Health has advised.
“Before returning home, Ebola patients will have their blood tested in the laboratory to ensure the virus is no longer in their body. However, people who have recovered from the illness should not have sex for at least three months unless they use condoms,” the Ministry of Health’s advisory reads in part.
The executive director of Uganda Virus Research Institute, Prof Pontiano Kaleebu, said although Ebola is not considered a sexually transmitted infection, in some studies, experts have found the virus in sperms after recovery.
Dr Ataro Ayella, a clinical epidemiologist, who has managed previous Ebola outbreaks in Bundibugyo in 2007, Liberia in 2014, and DR Congo in 2019, told Monitor in a separate interview yesterday that Ebola can be transmitted sexually, and the virus can stay in the semen for up to three months. This means transmission can occur even if the survivor has no symptoms of the disease.
“Besides having got cured of the disease, a relapse or reinfection could occur... The reinfection depends on the immunity of the person and other co-existing diseases,” Dr Ayella added.
Scientists say studies done in Liberia indicate that a woman was infected with Ebola following sexual intercourse with a male Ebola survivor.
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