90% of students fail sperm bank test
A Chinese hospital says only 10% of the sperm students have donated is good enough to use.
Nearly 400 undergraduates answered the Tongji Medical College's plea for sperm bank donors.
The hospital in central Hubei province targeted students, thinking their sperm was of a "finer quality" than the average.
Family planning department director Xiong Chengliang blamed unhealthy lifestyles for the high failure rate.
He told the Sing Tao Daily: "Many undergraduates now lead an active night life where they smoke, drink or surf the internet late into the night."
The Straits Times quotes him as saying: "Such unhealthy habits have affected the quality of their sperm."
Story filed: 12:25 Saturday 8th June 2002
A Chinese hospital says only 10% of the sperm students have donated is good enough to use.
Nearly 400 undergraduates answered the Tongji Medical College's plea for sperm bank donors.
The hospital in central Hubei province targeted students, thinking their sperm was of a "finer quality" than the average.
Family planning department director Xiong Chengliang blamed unhealthy lifestyles for the high failure rate.
He told the Sing Tao Daily: "Many undergraduates now lead an active night life where they smoke, drink or surf the internet late into the night."
The Straits Times quotes him as saying: "Such unhealthy habits have affected the quality of their sperm."
Story filed: 12:25 Saturday 8th June 2002