DID YOU KNOW THAT THE EBOLA VIRUS LASTS IN SEMEN FOR 70 DAYS?

WHO ( World Health Organisation) released a statement urging survivors to wear condoms before sex for 90 days.
Check out their statement below


“In a convalescent male, the virus can persist in semen for at least 70 days; one study suggests persistence for more than 90 days,” the WHO said in an information note on Monday.

“Certainly, the advice has to be for survivors to use a condom, to not have unprotected sex, for 90 days,” said Peter Piot, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a discoverer of Ebola in 1976.

“If we would apply the rule for double the time, that would be 180 days, six months. I think it (90 days) is probably a compromise, for practicality,” he told a news conference in Geneva. Ebola spreads via bodily fluids such as blood and saliva, but it has also been detected in breast milk and urine, as well as semen, the WHO said. The whole live virus has never been isolated from sweat, however.