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Sex After a Field Trip Yields Scientific Discovery
sciencehabit writes "A US vector biologist appears to have accidentally written virological history simply by having sex with his wife after returning from a field trip to Senegal. A study just released in Emerging Infectious Diseases suggests that the researcher, Brian Foy of Colorado State University, passed to his wife the Zika virus, an obscure pathogen that causes joint pains and extreme fatigue. If so, it would be the first documented case of sexual transmission of an insect-borne disease. The curious case also solves a viral mystery that's been going on for years."
TFS is full of shit. Blood transmittable implies sexually transmittable.
How many of Mr. Foy's female graduate assistants were tested for the disease?
For all we know, there could be an outbreak going on right now at the CSU campus.
More importantly, how many mosquitoes are there around Mr. Foy's home and/or workplace? I mean, it's a friggin mosquito-borne disease. Living in the same house as his wife, you'd expect it to be as likely for them to both be bitten by the same mosquito as it would be for a disease to spread in a manner previously thought impossible.
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
I mean, it's a friggin tropical mosquito-borne disease with a two-week development latency in mosiquitos that his wife got less than nine days after he returned.
Isn't it amazing how a few little factual details can take a belief from the realm of "common sense" and teleport it straight to "imbecilic"?
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