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Article: Heavy use of mobile phones can lead to fertility problems in men
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- October 24, 2006
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Mobile phones may be causing widespread damage to sperm production
in men with potentially devastating consequences for global fertility
rates, a study suggests.
Microwaves emitted by the phones reduce the number, mobility and
quality of sperm by almost half, to the point where some men may
become infertile, scientists say.Almost a billion people around the
world are using mobile phones and in some countries the number is
growing at 20 to 30 per cent a year. Scientists from the Reproductive
Research Centre at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland,
Ohio, tested the sperm of 364 men who were being investigated for
infertility with their partners.They found that men who were the ...