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sperm

  • 15-04-2006 2:19pm
    #1
    ronbyrne2005
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    can sperm transmit infectious disease to the egg and therfore foetus during fertilization? i dont mean genetic illnesses.basically can sperm(not semen but actually individual sperm) be infected with disease? if so what stops them infecting the fertillized egg and afterwards baby? i've heard of babys of hiv positive fathers being born hiv negative and many men have infectious diseases when they get a partner pregnant but the baby is born without infection.can somone clarify plese.
    cheers


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  • #2
    aidan_walsh
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    I'm not anything at all in medicine, but I would imagine that HIV\AIDS positive babies would pick up the infection from their mothers during pregnancy.


  • #3
    rugbug86
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    as far as i know if a baby pics up the infection its from the mother through the birth canal, so HIV positive mothers tend to give birth by section.


  • #4
    DrIndy
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    Sperm theoretically can carry a retrovirus like (but NOT!!) HIV inside the DNA, however, most transmission carried are infact in the semen around the sperm and infect the mother who infects the baby. Sperm are individual units and would not function if actively infected with a virus ergo, would not fertilise.....


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