Chapter 365 - 2045: Concentration is zero

In an alpine villa on Panay Island.

Sanchi Badalal was pressing his shoulder, while Li Qingye was sitting on the sofa, holding a tablet in his hand, frowning and flipping through it.

[Homo sapiens Medical Division 22 Annual Report...... ]

After the company's management, the average life expectancy in the control area has been increased to about 89 years, and it is still increasing rapidly.

This is thanks to the advantages of Homo sapiens in biotechnology, and as the scale of new humans expands, life expectancy naturally skyrockets.

Li Qingye was not surprised by this, if under such a powerful biotechnology of Homo sapiens, the average life expectancy could not be achieved, then that would be the problem.

The reason for his frown is not because of life expectancy, but because of another statistic mentioned in this report.

According to the data of the Ministry of Medicine, they counted the physical condition of all employees in the control area during 2019~2022 and found a very terrible phenomenon.

In Honsavady and Luzon, the average sperm concentration of young and middle-aged men was 53.71 million per milliliter in 19 years, 49.52 million per milliliter in 20 years, 45.11 million per milliliter in 21 years, and 42.83 million per milliliter in 22 years, respectively.

The same is true in Siam, Malacca, Java, and Borneo.

The most serious city in Sing Tao City has dropped to 14.28 million per milliliter.

On the contrary, the decline on Mada Island is relatively small, and the current average is 86.71 million per milliliter.

Why this is happening.

At first, the medical department also suspected that there were hostile forces poisoning and the like, but as the investigation deepened, they found that the situation in Homo sapiens was not an exception, but a global situation.

The more developed the area, the lower the concentration of sperm in men.

Among them, Europe, North America, Australia, Dongying and South Korea have the lowest concentrations, which are only 10 million or 20 million per milliliter.

Then there are more developed regions, such as the Far East and West Asia, which are only at the level of 20 or 30 million per milliliter.

The third batch of regions is Southeast Asia and Latin America, which is about 40 or 50 million per milliliter.

Finally, the highest concentration is in southern Africa, which can reach the level of 50 million ~ 200 million per milliliter.

If this trend continues, around 2045, the sperm concentration of men in Europe, the United States and some of the more developed regions will drop to almost zero.

Other underdeveloped regions are not expected to go anywhere.

The Ministry of Medicine has organized professional biological researchers and medical researchers to conduct a comprehensive study of this situation.

After analyzing the comprehensive medical examination reports of 800 million employees, and considering their jobs, permanent residences, daily diets, and living habits, the research team came to a shocking conclusion.

Genetic damage is the cause of decreased sperm concentration and quality.

So why doesn't a similar situation happen to women?

The reason for this is that there is a difference in the germ cells of the two.

Once a man's germ cells are genetically damaged, they have no way to repair themselves, but they can survive for a while.

After the genetic loss of a woman's germ cells, they will repair themselves, and if they are successfully repaired, the egg can develop and grow; If the repair is not successful, the egg dies.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that men pass on their genetic damage to the next generation.

This leads to a very terrible problem, which is that the male germ cells will become worse and worse, and the number is also declining rapidly.

You must know that in the seventies of the last century, in the statistics of developed countries, there was an average of 500 million ~ 300 million per milliliter.

So what is the cause of widespread genetic damage in humans?

The answer is already obvious.

There are two main causes of genetic damage, one is ionizing radiation, and the other is chemicals.

Extrapolating backwards from the historical development of developed regions, the key substance for chemical damage genes is nicotine.

The key to the genetic damage caused by ionizing radiation lies in the large-scale nuclear tests in the fifties and sixties of the last century, and the radioactive dust has been dispersed around the world through the atmospheric circulation.

This can actually be seen from the region.

In southern Africa and Latin America, there have been few large-scale nuclear explosion tests, while other regions have conducted nuclear explosion tests to a greater or lesser extent.

Among them, Oceania, Great Britain has conducted nuclear explosion experiments in the desert of Western Australia, and France has also conducted nuclear explosion experiments in the South Pacific.

Not to mention Southeast Asia, where there are many remnants of America's nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean to the east; To the west, Tianzhu and Xiba conduct nuclear tests in their own deserts, but atmospheric circulation carries particulate matter from there to Southeast Asia.

West Asia and North Africa, Judah and France have also conducted a number of nuclear tests there.

The timing of the two is also very coincidental, after the large-scale nuclear tests in the fifties and sixties of the last century, from 1970 onwards, the germ cells of human males began to have problems.

With the accumulation of genetic damage over several generations, the overall infertility problem of human beings has become more and more serious in the 21st century.

In the investigation report of the Ministry of Health, another very critical source of ionizing radiation that has been overlooked by many people also mentioned.

That's X-ray imaging in medicine.

The reason why the genetic damage is more severe in the more developed regions has a lot to do with their mature medical systems and the very common annual medical check-ups.

Although the dose of ionizing radiation from X-ray imaging equipment is not high, its damage to genes cannot be ignored, especially in people with regular medical examinations.

In less developed areas, medical resources are relatively scarce, and some people may not have been exposed to X-ray imaging equipment in their entire lives.

Through this series of research, the medical department has identified the culprits of human genetic damage, which are radioactive fallout, nicotine, and X-ray equipment.

However, this finding is of little use in curbing the trend of genetic damage in humans.

New humans may be forced to quit smoking.

However, radioactive fallout has already spread to all corners of human society through atmospheric circulation and water circulation, and it is difficult to completely remove some trace amounts of radioactive materials.

X-ray equipment is almost indispensable equipment in the current medical system, even if Homo sapiens has magnetic field imaging technology, there is still no way to completely eliminate X-ray imaging equipment.

Li Qingye put down the tablet in his hand and sighed: "Human beings are always good at destroying themselves. ”

Sanchi Badalal stood behind him, silently rubbing his temples.

Regarding the problem of genetic damage, Li Qingye couldn't be clearer.

After all, he genetically modified himself in order to gain the power of revenge, and now his sperm is still inactive.

This is typical of genetic damage.

It is very easy to damage genes, but it is very difficult to repair and treat.

For people in other regions, he can not care about it, but the new human is his diehard, and Li Qingye definitely doesn't want his subordinates to have problems.

However, the related technology of gene therapy is still not mature and is not suitable for popularization in a short period of time.

However, the problem of genetic damage is imminent, and with the speed of development of Homo sapiens, even if the cause of the disease is understood, it is difficult to curb the spread of genetic loss, and it can only be delayed for more than ten years at most.

So now we have to find a way.

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