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New Study Finds Sperm Counts Dropping Throughout The Western World

A study shows a significant decline in sperm counts in four western nations.

New Study Finds Sperm Counts Dropping Throughout The Western World

A newly publishedstudy in the Journal of Human Reproduction has some alarming news about sperm count in four industrial nations: North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. No decline of significance was seen in South America, Asia or Africa, although, as the researchers point out, not many studies of this kind have been conducted in those areas.

Researchers at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Jerusalem analyzed data from 7,500 studies on men who did not undergo treatment for infertility between 1973 and 2011, totaling nearly 43,000 men.

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