Dengue fever, a tropical illness caused by mosquito bites could be passed on through sex, a study has found. For the first time, scientists have found the virus that causes the fever in the semen of a man, more than a month after he fell ill while traveling in Thailand. The virus lingering in a person's semen has led researchers to think the condition could be passed on during sex even after the person has recovered. Although adults usually only have mild flu-like symptoms such as a headache, fever, and muscle or joint pain, between one and two percent of dengue fever cases, progress to severe dengue, which can be fatal.
There is currently no cure for the virus but it isn't naturally found in the UK. It is most commonly caught by people traveling to hotter climates such as southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, the Caribbean and South and Central America. The study, published in…
