Vaccine hesitancy: Covid-19 could cause male infertility and sexual dysfunction - but vaccines do not vaccine covid19 infertility
I am the director of the Reproductive Urology Program at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. My colleagues and I analysed the autopsy tissues of the testicles of six men who died of Covid-19 infection.
Our team also discovered that Covid-19 affects the penis. An analysis of penile tissue from two men receiving penile implants showed the virus was present seven to nine months after their Covid-19 diagnosis. Both men had developed severe erectile dysfunction, probably because the infection caused reduced blood supply to the penis.
One example: Investigators studying testes tissues from six patients who died from the 2006 SARS-CoV virus found all of them had widespread cell destruction, with few to no sperm. Granted, the research is only a first step on how Covid-19 might affect male sexual health; the samples were small. Studies should continue.
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