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Please share your email address so I can email the proof of sexually transmission

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Dr Matt I saw you have been in this road for a long time, the sexual transmission is it not a course of high infection particularly in South Africa

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Matt Irwin MD's avatar

I will contact you separately. The reason a high level of proof is best for claims of infectiousness is that isolation and quarantine is extremely harmful. In people with fragile health it becomes a form of human sacrifice, especially when claims of "super deadly" microbes are made. While illness and death are a common part of life, in my 20 years as a hospice doctor I have learned that underlying poor health is the primary reason someone has difficulty recovering from illness, not any kind of "super-bug". The healthiest way to help ill people is to offer mindful tender loving care, as advocated by Mother Teresa and Thich Nhat Hanh :-).

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Please do

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