Traces of the COVID-19 coronavirus have been found in the semen of some severely infected men, raising the possibility that the virus could be sexually transmitted, Chinese researchers said Thursday.
A team at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital tested 38 male patients treated there at the height of the pandemic in China, in January and February, reports CBS News.
Researchers found evidence of the virus in the semen of six men (16%), the team reported in the journal JAMA Network Open. About a quarter