Why Is Sperm Count Dropping?

Posted December 3, 2018

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Sperm count in Western countries has been dropping for over a hundred years, and scientists have some ideas as to what’s behind this swimmer shortage.

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Pesticides result in lower sperm counts

https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(16)59640-X/pdf
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/831d/6d5ae4700609b49fb75b213f4145866da976.pdf
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http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/climate-change-making-it-harder-to-conceive

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