Specialists from Italy, who were treating two males who contracted the Zika virus, say that the dangerous virus can live in the semen of men for up to six months.
Scientists also add that one of their patients contracted the disease while on vacation in Haiti. After the symptoms of the disease were weakened, repeated tests revealed that the virus was in saliva, urine and semen for ninety-one days.
Subsequent studies also helped determine that the Zika virus remained in the semen of males on the 188-eighth day of the experiment.
The second case of infection of a forty-year-old patient, also on vacation in Haiti, confirmed all the assumptions of the authors of the work. Tests have shown that the Zika virus has been present in the semen of men for six months.
Doctors strongly advise all males to abstain from intimate relationships or use condoms even after they have been successfully treated for the Zika virus.
Apostolova-Polishchuk Nadezhda