{"id":32,"date":"2020-05-13T16:36:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publichealth.sdsu.edu\/covid-19\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2020-05-13T16:36:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:36:32","slug":"sexual-organs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/sexual-organs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Organs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 is probably not sexually transmitted. &nbsp;SARS-CoV-2 RNA was not found in vaginas of infected women, perhaps because vaginal tissue lacks angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), the cell receptor for SARS-CoV-2 (Cui et al.).&nbsp; ACE2 is more highly expressed in testes than ovaries, so testes might serve as reservoirs for SARS-CoV-2, and might explain why more men were severely infected than women (Shastri et al.). &nbsp;No SARS-CoV-2 RNA was found expressed prostatic secretions (EPS) of infected men (Quan et al.), or in semen (Pan X et al.). &nbsp;So COVID-19 is probably not transmitted sexually, but sexual interactions could transmit it through the other routes described above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 is probably not sexually transmitted. &nbsp;SARS-CoV-2 RNA was not found in vaginas of infected women, perhaps because vaginal tissue lacks angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), the cell receptor for SARS-CoV-2 (Cui et al.).&nbsp; ACE2 is more highly expressed in testes than ovaries, so testes might serve as reservoirs for SARS-CoV-2, and might explain why more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}