By Ethan Covey
Investigators have found that the semen of certain Ebola survivors tested positive for Ebola RNA two years after resolution of the infection.
The study shows that Ebola virus can persist in male survivors longer than previously thought (Open Forum Infect Dis [Epub July 22, 2017]. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx155).
“Due to the small size of prior outbreaks and the austere environments that they have occurred, we have historically known very little about the persistence of