WHO advises eight weeks of safe sex after return from Zika areas

Individuals coming back from regions where the Zika infection is found ought to take after safe sex rehearses or swear off sex for no less than eight weeks instead of only four, the World Health Organization (WHO) verbally communicated on Tuesday.


The proposal, which pairs the restraint time frame the WHO had anteriorly prompted, comes after researchers found the infection waits longer than aforesaid suspected in blood or other body liquids, representative Christian Lindmeier told a news preparation.

On the off chance that the male accomplice in a couple coordinating gravidity has side effects of the Zika infection, the time of safe forbearance ought to be six months, he incorporated.

"Individuals ought to rehearse more secure sex or go without for no less than eight weeks on the off chance that they are coming back from Zika-influenced zones," he verbally communicated. "The point of reference proposal recommended a time of no less than four weeks, so we're increasing (it)."

The beginning rules "reflect what we have found out about Zika sickness and its difficulties," he coordinated.

Inquired as to whether this early exhortation added up to an effectual veto on pregnancies in Brazil, where the infection initially showed up a year back, Lindmeier verbally communicated: "The direction is to defer or consider postponing gravidity, surely apperceiving this is extreme for a few populaces."

The representative verbally communicated researchers are as yet exploring to what extent the infection can be followed in salivation yet these tests have so far been uncertain.

"This is being considered to outwardly see where else we discover the infection and to what extent it maintains there," he verbally communicated.