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COVID Jabs Impact Both Male and Female Fertility - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

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Notre site en Français: mondialisation.ca Global Research All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** The first COVID shots rolled out in December 2020, and it didn’t take long before doctors and scientists started warning of possible reproductive effects, as the jab may cross-react with syncytin and reproductive genes in sperm, ova and placenta in ways that might impair reproduction According to one recent investigation, 42% of women with regular menstrual cycles said they bled more heavily than usual after vaccination; 39% of those on gender-affirming hormone treatments reported breakthrough bleeding, as did 71% of women on long-acting contraceptives

Evaluation of sperm integrin α5β1 as a potential marker of fertility in humans | PLOS ONE

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Discover a faster, simpler path to publishing in a high-quality journal. PLOS ONE promises fair, rigorous peer review, broad scope, and wide readership – a perfect fit for your research every time. Learn More Submit Now Click through the PLOS taxonomy to find articles in your field. For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click here. Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Evaluation of sperm integrin α5β1 as a potential marker of fertility in humans Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft Affiliation Laboratorio de Biología de la Reproducción en Mamíferos, Centro de Estudios Farmacológicos y Botánicos (CEFYBO), Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel María Lottero-Leconte, Carlos Agustín Isidro Alonso Ro

If monkeypox spreads through sexual contact, is it an STD?

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For most of the six decades that monkeypox has affected people, it was not known as a disease that spreads through sex. That has changed. The current outbreak is by far the biggest involving the virus, and it’s been designated a global emergency. So far, officials say, all evidence indicates that the disease has spread mainly through networks of men who have sex with men. “It clearly is spreading as an STI [sexually transmitted infection] at this point,” said Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. To protect the people at highest risk while trying to contain the spread, public health agencies are focusing their attention on those men — and attacking the virus based on how it’s behaving now. On Wednesday, the head of the World Health Organization advised men at risk for monkeypox to consider reducing their sexual partners “for the moment.” But this is a complicated outbreak that may shift in how it spreads and which population groups are most affecte

Covid-19 and sperm: What we know so far about how the virus affects fertility | New ScientistNew ScientistInstagram

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Sign up to read our regular email newsletters What we know so far about how covid-19 affects sperm Evidence suggests covid-19 infections can lower sperm counts for months, and that the virus can occasionally be found in semen and may even directly bind to sperm cells By Carissa Wong False-colour scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of human sperm CNRI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Covid-19 infections can lower sperm count and the virus may even bind to receptors on the surface of sperm cells. However, there is no evidence to suggest that the effects differ to those seen after other illnesses that involve fever, such as the flu. Krishna Chaitanya Mantravadi at Oasis Fertility, a fertility clinic in India, tracked sperm counts in 20 men aged 25 to 35 from before they had a SARS-CoV-2 infection to nearly five months after they had fully recovered – … Continue reading Subscribe today to get 50% off Offer ends 31/08/2022. *Cancel anytime within 14 days of payment to receive a refund on unserved issue