{"id":2659,"date":"2020-05-07T16:12:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2020-05-07T16:12:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:12:59","slug":"coronavirus-rna-found-in-the-semen-of-young-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/05\/07\/coronavirus-rna-found-in-the-semen-of-young-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus RNA found in the semen of young COVID-19 patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the on-line newsletter, The Conversation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/648\/michaelis-martin\">Prof Martin Michaelis<\/a> and Drs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1036\/ellis-peter\">Peter Ellis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1137\/wass-mark\">Mark Wass<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\">School of Biosciences<\/a>) have commented on recent work showing the potential for sexual transmission of SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus causing the current COVID-19 pandemic. The study was conducted in China and identified the virus in the semen of hospitalised patients with COVID-19. Dr Peter Ellis said: \u201cIt is clear that much remains to be known about possible sexual transmission of COVID-19 but given that the virus is highly contagious via non-sexual routes, this is unlikely to pose a considerable health risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/coronavirus-found-in-semen-of-young-men-with-covid-19-138059\">full article<\/a> in The Conversation to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/05\/07\/coronavirus-rna-found-in-the-semen-of-young-covid-19-patients\/&amp;t=Coronavirus RNA found in the semen of young COVID-19 patients' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Coronavirus RNA found in the semen of young COVID-19 patients%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/05\/07\/coronavirus-rna-found-in-the-semen-of-young-covid-19-patients\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/05\/07\/coronavirus-rna-found-in-the-semen-of-young-covid-19-patients\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/05\/07\/coronavirus-rna-found-in-the-semen-of-young-covid-19-patients\/&amp;title=Coronavirus RNA found in the semen of young COVID-19 patients' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/05\/07\/coronavirus-rna-found-in-the-semen-of-young-covid-19-patients\/&amp;title=Coronavirus RNA found in the semen of young COVID-19 patients' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the on-line newsletter, The Conversation, Prof Martin Michaelis and Drs Peter Ellis and Mark Wass (School of Biosciences) have commented on recent work showing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/05\/07\/coronavirus-rna-found-in-the-semen-of-young-covid-19-patients\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5212,"featured_media":2663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24338,80390,124],"tags":[184201,184255,80442,70,80425,80445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}