Study: Patients Infected, in semen There Zika virus

The mosquito Aedes aegypti seen in laboratory Oxitec in Campinas, Brazil, (02/02/2016). About four thousand babies born in Brazil with a small head (microchepaly) from the outbreak Zika. (REUTERS / Paulo Whitaker)

New York- The British study further strengthen the evidence Zika virus can be transmitted through sexual intercourse. The latest report reveals found their Zika virus in the semen of men infected with this virus a few years ago.
The researchers found the virus after nine weeks after the first day he was ill, as written in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases to be published in May.

 "Our data indicate Zika virus in semen, which could potentially be transmitted through sexual contact," explained the researchers from the Public Health England as quoted by page Live Science, Monday (15/02/2016).

Previously, health officials revealed the case of a man from Dallas, United States Zika transmit the virus to their partners through sexual contact. This man had traveled to Venezuela, a country that was an outbreak of Zika.

Other reports also found that the transmission of viral infections Zika of 68-year-old British man who traveled to the islands of the Pacific in 2014. At that time in the place that he came was no Extraordinary Events Zika virus.

After returning to England he had a fever, weakness and skin redness. Turns out he was infected with the virus Zika. Researchers continue to do research on it through a blood test, urine and semen. After 62 days since he was first ill, not the virus is found in blood and urine, but there are still Zika virus in semen.