Via Radio Moto Butembo-Beni: Ebola fight: a warning to the wives of men cured of Ebola. Excerpt from the Google translation, and then a comment:
Men cured of Ebola can easily contaminate their wives because the virus lives for a certain period in the sperm. This warning was issued during the Presbyteral Council on Thursday, February 7, 2019. This meeting was an opportunity to recall some measures of prevention of Ebola virus disease.
During the meeting, speakers emphasized the need for regular hand washing and the limit of body contact. It has been reported that men cured of Ebola can easily contaminate their wives because the virus lives for a certain period in the sperm. It is in this sense that the experts of the response team exhorted the servants of God to instruct the men on the scrupulous respect of sanitary measures, after healing.
The MOH and its allies have been too busy fighting the outbreak to think much about the aftermath, but surviving Ebola isn't easy. As we saw in West Africa, post-Ebola syndrome is very real—a spectrum of ailments aggravated by the stigma of having had the disease. And Ebola can indeed survive in semen, posing a risk survivors' sexual partners.
