CDC Quantifies Advice on Sex, Conception in the Time of Zika

CDC Quantifies Advice on Sex, Conception in the Time of Zika

Just a week after issuing its previous advisory, the Centers for Disease Control is already refining recommended precautions men and women need to take before engaging in sexual contact or attempting to conceive. Men with potential exposure (ie, travel or residence in an active outbreak area) should not engage in unprotected sex for at least 8 weeks after the exposure ends. Advice to use condoms or abstain from sex also applies to currently pregnant women …

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It’s Not Just Drugs and Rock and Roll

JOHN SHUFELDT, MD, JD, MBA, FACEP The one thing I have left out has been… well…sex. Sex has over the years I have attempted to cover it all. Drugs, rock and roll, BFRF (big F-ing red flag), airplane crashes, you name it. Sex has always been a challenging and awkward subject or me. In fact, I cried the first time I had sex—thank God I was alone. Anyway, speaking of God, my challenges with this subject …

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