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RE: CDC Meta Analysis Discusses Just How Many Viruses Can Live In Human Semen
This is breaking news to me! 27 viruses already identified in semen, and maybe many more. I'm really wondering why research into this topic is so minimal! I would think this is massively important to understand better. In my little country The Netherlands, we generally are tested on the usual suspects when requesting our doctor to do so, however most of the costs are for the client since our medical insurance does not pay for it. That actually limits the amount of test requests to those who can afford to pay for it.
Well there is only so much money to spend researching topics, and ones like cancer are a higher priority. On the bright side some workers are still tackling problems like this so we aren't completely left in the dark.
I agree in general with your statement, choices must be made. However I do know of research to cure illnesses of which we have not more than 10 people being ill in NL. At that levels other choices may be made. But yeh, it is good that some of the people in the medicine segment are spending time and money.
Yes and those people are for sure Ill. It's not known yet whether these virsuses are even transmissible. The proof is in the pudding, If further data shows this to be a bigger deal, then you can bet more money will be shifted to it from other areas.
For now it falls under the realm of interesting, and important to continue working on. However it's not yet to the stage of, for sure causing disease, for sure leading to miscarriages etc. Asking whether it could is still just asking.
You have a point! You would think that eg the condom industry would jump on this when it would be something big, meaning they would lead and/or finance research when the certainty would be sufficient enough of transmissible deceases harmful for others.