Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Dec 2017
Zika virus in semen: a prospective cohort study of symptomatic travellers returning to Belgium.
To prospectively monitor Zika viral loads in semen from Belgian travellers with confirmed Zika virus infection, who returned from the Americas during the 2016 Zika virus epidemic. ⋯ The majority of men in our study had detectable Zika virus RNA in their semen. We recommend that semen from Zika virus-infected men should be analysed with RT-PCR and that health professionals should advise infected men, even if they are vasectomized, about current recommendations for prevention of sexual transmission of the virus.