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Pollution blamed for poor China sperm count

10 avril 2007, 00:00

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Pollution, stress, smoking and multiple abortions are all leading to a rise in infertility in China, which may affect up to one-tenth of Chinese couples, Xinhua news agency said yesterday. Sperm counts had fallen noticeable since the 1970s, the report quoted Wang Yifei of Shanghai’s Jiaotong University as telling a symposium on reproduction health . Rising wealth resulting from the country’s headlong economic boom over the past few decades has contributed to the problem and in helping promote unhealthy lifestyles.

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