The federal government on Tuesday launched a scheme to freeze the sperm of 1,000 veterans to better understand the alarmingly high rates of infertility among those who served in the and wars.The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is partnering with a fertility clinic in Boston to study the sperm of war-on-terror servicemen, who suffer from twice the rates of infertility as the population at large and frequently struggle to raise a family.The cause of such high infertility rates is poorly understood, but has been linked to exposure to toxic burn pits, stress, head trauma and even the lead in bullets and other heavy metals found in war zones.
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