Ebola Hiding in Semen for Almost a Year

HARD TO KILL

A troubling new study shows the world’s deadliest virus can survive long after patients are declared to be “cured.”

Published Oct. 15 2015 12:25PM EDT

articles/2015/10/15/ebola-hiding-in-semen-for-almost-a-year/151015-haglage-ebola-tease_u6nra0 — Christopher Black/Reuters

The Ebola virus can remain in the semen of survivors for up to nine months after the symptoms develop, according to new evidence published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The study performed in Sierra Leone, one of the West African countries hit the hardest by Ebola, involved 93 men...

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Ebola Hiding in Semen for Almost a Year

A troubling new study shows the world’s deadliest virus can survive long after patients are declared to be “cured.”

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Abby Haglage