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October 19, 2015
Ebola hangs out in testicles? Another reason to just admit African refugees willy-nilly into your country.
Two new research papers found that the virus can live in a male survivor's semen for up to nine months, and that one man passed it to his sexual partner months after he was released from the Ebola ward.
"It's an explosive virus. It replicates like crazy ... and it destroys everything in its path," says Messaoudi, a viral immunologist and professor of biomedical sciences at the University of California, Riverside, who is studying how the virus works in the human body. "So, how is it just hanging out in the testes for like nine months?" -- NPR
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 19, 2015 5:38 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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I was tweeting this fact last year. I was stunned at the cavalier attitude of our admitting so many ebola patients and survivors into the country. I also think Obama was surprised it didn't bring about the desired crisis. Yet.
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at October 19, 2015 6:12 PM