Global Decline In Sperm Count Is Accelerating Research Suggests
The analysis, carried out by Professor Hagai Levine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor Shanna Swan at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York, found that the average global sperm count more than halved between 1973 and 2018. Since 1972 it had declined by about 1 percent each year, the researchers said. However, since 2000, the annual decline has averaged more than 2.6 percent. Levine said the findings served as “a canary in a coal mine....