[quote=Daily Mail]
A biologist has inadvertently made history after becoming the first person to pass on an insect-borne virus to another human by sexual contact.
Researcher Brian Foy contracted the Zika virus, which causes severe fatigue and joint pain, while on a field trip to Senegal.
Five days after his return he fell ill, followed by his wife Joy who started showing symptoms too.
The scientists were baffled as to what she had caught until a year later when, on a hunch, they carried out a battery of tests and concluded that sexual contact between the Foys was the most likely cause.
Professor Foy and the co-authors of a new paper on the discovery believe it is the first instance of sexual transmission of a mosquito-born virus between humans.
Such a possibility has been explored before among animals, but not in humans.
Professor Foy, from the University of Colorado, and colleague Kevin Kobylinski, a Phd student, had been collecting mosquitoes in a south-eastern village of Senegal called Bandafassi, where they were often bitten.
Upon their return home in August 2008 they fell sick.
Their symptoms were extreme tiredness, swollen wrists, rashes and painful urination. Professor Foy had skin problems and what appeared to be blood in his semen.
A few weeks later Mrs Foy also fell ill with similar symptoms, along with extreme sensitivity to light.
Their four children were unharmed.
The Foys asked colleagues at the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention to try and identify which pathogen they had been infected with, but the best they could do was a guess at dengue fever, even though Professor Foy and Mr Kobylinski had been vaccinated against it.
It was not until a year later when Mr Kobylinski went for a beer with medical entomologist Andrew Haddow from the University of Texas while on another trip to Senegal that they had a breakthrough.
He suggested that Zika could be responsible and when they carried out tests on Mr Kobylinski and the Foys, it turned out his hunch was correct.
Science Now reported that while there was no direct evidence that Mrs Foy was infected by sexual contact, the ‘circumstantial evidence is strong’.
The website said that the species of mosquito that transmit Zika don’t live near their home in Colorado and the life cycle of the mosquito fitted with how events unfolded.
In a paper published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Professor Foy added the crucial final piece to the puzzle: ‘Patients 1 and 3 (Mr and Mrs Foy) reported having vaginal sexual intercourse in the days after patient 1 returned home but before the onset of his clinical illness.’
Professor Foy added: ‘My wife wasn't happy with what happened afterwards.'
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WELL, FUCK.
Goddamn it if I get the clap from a mosquito.....
Unusual
Dang it mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes banned in Australia.
Another reason to hate them even more
kill them all and replace them with little robot pollinators
this is why you use a condom
[QUOTE=BigOwl;29050695]Mosquitoes banned in Australia.[/QUOTE]
In other news:
Australia bans biologists.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;29051037]this is why you use a condom[/QUOTE]
If you're both married/together long terrm there is almost no reason to use condoms.
This is why we don't need to experience on instects, you never know when they can escape with a disease.
[QUOTE=tomatmann;29051300]In other news:
Australia bans biologists.[/QUOTE]
Years ago
[QUOTE=HawkeyeTy;29051321]If you're both married/together long terrm there is almost no reason to use condoms.[/QUOTE]
Apparently there is.
i :doh:'d at the thread title thinking someone claimed they got aids from a mosquito bite :v:
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;29050505]Read more: [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1374480/Scientist-accidentally-passes-insect-virus-wife-sexual-contact.html#ixzz1IvYpXvAd[/url]
WELL, FUCK.[/QUOTE]
I see what you did there.
[QUOTE=HawkeyeTy;29051321]If you're both married/together long terrm there is almost no reason to use condoms.[/QUOTE]
Birth control, hrmm.
[quote] Professor Foy had skin problems and what appeared to be [B]blood in his semen.[/B]
A few weeks later [B]Mrs Foy also fell ill with similar symptoms[/B][/quote]
:psyduck:
Uh oh. Buyin' me a mosquito zapper for when I sleep.
:ohdear:
that's pretty scary
[QUOTE=MintyMginty;29051521]:psyduck:[/QUOTE]
It's called sex, I hope you've heard of it.
[QUOTE=Van-man;29051668]It's called sex, I hope you've heard of it.[/QUOTE]
How does a woman have semen though, that`s what he`s getting at.
:ohdear:
[QUOTE=Van-man;29051668]It's called sex, I hope you've heard of it.[/QUOTE]
The joke.
Your head.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;29051515]Birth control, hrmm.[/QUOTE]
Other methods? When STDs are off the table and you can trust your partner for taking the appropriate precautions there are less need to use condoms. If your wife says she's on the pill or that she has a spiral etc... you can believe her, or at least she would be less inclined to lying.
[editline]8th April 2011[/editline]
Relying solely on condoms for birth control is not the best approach, they are very reliable and must be used in random sexual encounters but there is still the risk of slippage and/or breaking.
"blood in his semen"
Sounds unpleasent.
[h2]lT BEGINS!!![/h2]
His wife's name is Joy Foy. I just thought that was worth mentioning.
[quote]Professor Foy had skin problems and what appeared to be blood in his semen.
A few weeks later Mrs Foy also fell ill with similar symptoms, along with extreme sensitivity to light.[/quote]
So Joy Foy had blood in her semen too? That's nasty.
Fucking AWESOME
Now I'm afraid to go camping
Madagascar has closed its seaports.
[QUOTE=BigOwl;29050695]Mosquitoes banned in Australia.[/QUOTE]
I'd be ok with this, mosquitoes are dicks.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU.
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