Male infertility rate on the rise

SHANGHAI: In an increasingly mobile and competitive world, even one's manhood is under threat. Forget about grooming or making more money. It's time men started watching out for their sperm.

Experts say at least 100,000 men in Shanghai are suffering from infertility, because of the ever-worsening environmental pollution as well as unhealthy lifestyle under higher work pressure.

Radiation from cellphones, computers and other electronic devices, air, water and food pollution, combined with the sedentary lifestyle followed in cities are to blame for a possible "quality decline" of the sperm, which may, in turn, lead to men's poor reproductive capability. Li Zheng, a urologist from Shanghai Jiao Tong University affiliated Renji Hospital, told China Daily yesterday.