Sperm Counts Declining In Shanghai - Reuters

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SHANGHAI - "The bright lights and fast living of China's richest city have taken a heavy toll on the local sperm count, a newspaper said on Monday.

Shanghai's sperm bank had managed to collect just 6,000 samples in two years and many of those were of "poor quality", the Shanghai Daily said.

"More than 2,000 people came here for physical checks and only 400 were found to be qualified" to donate sperm, the newspaper quoted the sperm bank director, Li Zheng, as saying.

Unhealthy lifestyles, emotional stress and environmental pollution were to blame for deteriorating quality, it added."

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[bullimiami]

1. natural law will solve the population explosion.

since human intelligence or lack thereof refused to.

it will also solve every other probelm but maybe not to our liking.

[demnan]

2. Well, duh!

How long will we continue to pollute this world before nature takes its course and sterilizes the lot of us.

Hey I live near the Potomac where fish have both sets of sex organs. Maybe we'll end up like that too.