Subject:  Failing sperm counts.....
Date:     Mon, 27 Apr 1998 141923 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:

As old as I am ... I find that the following story still captures
MY attention.....  Good for the Brits!!!  But, what took them so 
long???

Hope you will go again and read my 1996 essay on this subject:


Since writing that essay, we have heard much more about the possible
synergistic effect between EMF and chemical disruption.....


Cheerio.....

Roy Beavers (EMFguru).....alias ...."The Dirty Old Man"......

rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................

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Britain orders probe into failing sperm counts

        
            CHESTER, England, April 25 (Reuters) - Britain is to launch
a government research programme to investigate whether falling
sperm counts are endangering the nation's reproductive capacity,
Environment Minister Michael Meacher said on Saturday.
            ``I am very concerned about the various reports of declining
reproductive health in man and wildlife, and suggestions that
this could be due to chemicals,'' he said.
            Meacher, who is attending an informal meeting of European
Union environment and transport ministers in Chester, north-west
England, said the government needed to find out whether the
trend towards lower potency was real and whether chemicals were
the cause.
            He said the government would spend over three million pounds
($5 million) on two studies.
            The first would be into whether sperm counts and quality
were declining in men, and whether this was associated with
increases in testicular cancer and birth defects in boys.
            The second would focus on fish and other marine wildlife,
especially in British estuaries, to see whether they are
suffering hormonal problems.
 ^REUTERS@




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