Originally published October 18 2005
Doctor warns about the impact of pesticides on human reproduction
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Dr. Ashutosh Halder, associate professor at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, speaks about the impact of pesticides on human reproduction, particularly its dramatic reduction of sperm counts, which could result in genetically weaker populations.
The number of females is increasing in the world, except in India and China.
Studies have shown that the dioxin-containing pesticides may not have any effect on viability of Y chromosome (female chromosome) whereas viability of X chromosome (male chromosome) is greatly affected.
This was stated by Dr Ashutosh Halder, the associate professor, Department of Reproductive Biology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, while addressing a seminar held at Mohan Dai Oswal Cancer Hospital.
Advertisement The seminar was held on Environmental Health - Impacts of Pesticide Use with Reference to Cancers and Reproductive Health and the developing society action plan towards civic responsibility wherein physicians and experts from agriculture sector participated.
Two prominent people --- Dr Halder and associate director of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Chander Bhushan delivered key lectures.
''Earlier, the normal sperm count used to be 60 million which has now dropped to mere 20 million and in the coming days, it may hit just 5 million, which is a disturbing fact.
The poor quality of semen does not only mean an increase in infertile couples but also poor quality of semen could result in genetically not-so-strong generation.
He spoke at length on a study conducted by AIIMS in Bathinda district on the high incidence of cancer.
Commenting on the inferences drawn from the study, he said the early signs of aging and higher incidence of cancer in area were seen.
''We conducted a study simultaneously in a controlled area too and it was found that the number of cancer cases in the Malwa belt is much higher than in the controlled area.
We cannot blame the use of pesticides wholly for causing cancer; many other factors such demographic factors can also be responsible for it,'' he said.
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