A new study has shown that Covid can infect and damage a person’s penis and testicles.
Researchers at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinoisin a study on monkeys, it was found that the virus can infect male genital cells and cause long-term harm.
Researchers have found that COVID-19, which infects a person’s penis, testicles, and prostate cells, can cause a variety of health problems.
Previous research has shown that male survivors of the virus sometimes suffer from erectile dysfunction and other reproductive tract problems, although this is often thought to be the result of inflammation as an immune response to the virus.
These researchers now believe that the virus itself, and not the immune system, is causing genital problems in infected men, changing the approach to treating this type of condition.
The researchers, who published their findings last week in bioRxiv while awaiting peer review before publication in a journal, conducted a study of three male rhesus monkeys, a breed of monkey often used for such studies because they share many genetic similarities with humans.
Each of the monkeys had a body scan after they were infected with the virus to determine where traces of the virus were visible.
Dr. Thomas Hope, lead researcher and professor of biology at Northwestern University, told reporters. New York Times that “the signal in the penis was out of sight.”
The researchers found the spread of the virus in the penis of all three animals. One of the animals also had an infection in the testicles.
The findings show that the virus managed to infect and spread in the monkey’s penis, likely causing problems with the animal’s genital tract, such as erectile dysfunction.
The study was conducted on male rhesus monkeys (pictured), a type of monkey that shares many genetic similarities with humans.
Researchers believe that this type of spread can cause severe damage to the body area in both animals and humans.
The spread of the virus in the penis can cause erectile dysfunction and Peyronie’s disease, a condition in which a person feels severe pain during an erection.
The spread of Covid in the prostate can lead to reduced sperm quality and even increase the risk of prostate cancer.
In the testicles, the virus can reduce the quantity and quality of sperm and reduce testosterone levels.
An infected man may also experience inflammation or pain in the testicles.
Previous studies have found a link between COVID-19 infection and the development of erectile dysfunction.
BUT study published last year by the University of Florida found that men who recovered from the virus were three times more likely to develop the disease than those who did not.
Men with pre-existing risk factors such as obesity, heart or respiratory disease showed even higher levels of erectile dysfunction.
This may be due to inflammation as an immune response to the virus, which is the cause of many of the “long-lasting” symptoms of Covid, often under the definition of MIS-C.
In this case, however, the virus itself binds to the body and causes long-term harm to those it infects.
“The receptor that the coronavirus binds to is abundant on the penis and testicles,” said Dr. Joseph Katz, a professor of dentistry at the University of Florida who led the study last year.
“The virus can bind to these areas. And studies have shown that COVID can reduce the amount of testosterone produced. Testosterone loss has been shown to put someone at risk for a more severe outcome from COVID-19.”