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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."
...to act as a control if you want.
I'll be in the booth with no disease and Christina Hendricks. For science of course.
Add to this all the inconvenience of being followed around all day by researchers documenting her every move, hoping to catch any mating procedures on film.
What if what really happened is he gave his wife Senegalese crabs?
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Both the doctor and student got the disease from insects in Senegal. The doctor returned home and infected his wife. But, being a grad student, even if he did screw his wife the doctor would still get the credit.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
"If so, it would be the first documented case of sexual transmission of an insect-borne disease. "
There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off
There's another on my brother, whack it off
There's a dozen on my cousin's
I can hear the bastards buzzin'
There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off
- John Valby
Sung by Boy Scouts around campfires everywhere since 1960
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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.
They considered that, but circumstantial evidence pointed to sexual transmission. According to TFA, the virus has to complete a 2-week life cycle within the insect before it can infect the next human; Foy's wife fell ill just 9 days after his return. Thus she did not get it from an insect bite. In addition, the mosquitoes in that region are not known carriers. (Different species.)
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"Sex transmits a disease just like it has been documents to happen in boars." (see TFA)
vs
"A mosquito gets in his (most likely) crappy, soft shell backpack in Senegal, stays inside it for two days while crossing a third of the globe, manages to survive the beating while being thrown around in the Senegalese roads and at two or three different airports, survives some cold temperatures in the cargo bay of an airplane (is stuff stored at room temperature or slightly below there?) gets safe and sound to his home and then chooses to infect only the person he had sex with but none of his kids.
Yes, you're right it sounds much more likely the tiny bug survived all that.
Assuming your penis is small enough to pleasure an insect the correct term would probably be entomonality. FYI, arachnids are not insects; arachnids have eight legs, insects have six.
I always thought I was broadminded, but I draw the line at shagging tarantulas. That's just wrong.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it