This was also the case of a US Coast Guard 'monitor' of the Exxon Valdez oil spill 'bioremediation' experiment. He told me that what distressed him the most these past 14 years was not the other odd symptoms - unexplained rapid heart rate, etc - but that although the enzymes and male anatomy was in A-OK condition, he had ZERO sperm - and the endocrinologists had NO explanation.

Turns out that he was exposed to even more 2-butoxyethanol than even the Inipol EAP 22 workers themselves ... as the US Coast Guard were the monitors and they were positioned on the Prince William Sound, Alaska beaches before the first worker arrived and did not leave until the last worker left. Now, if a health study is done, other workers with the same exposure should have the same effect (Basically 'gulf war syndrome' symptoms, if you know what those are)

Research on sperm count and quality of sperm indicate that in the last 50+ years it has been dropping by 2% per year and that at this rate all men will have zero sperm count by the next 50 years from now. Many news articles in 1996 on this. A pesticide is suspected. The chemical 2-butoxyethanol; diethylene glycol monobutyl ether (both chemicals gulf war troops were exposed to - though something NOT studied) are pesticides/solvents/poisons that target the testes and that came into widepread use 1950s and on.

  

So sorry;

I wanted to ask if there might be 'occupational' hazards such as this for those in some jobs in the military? You've heard of 'gulf war syndrome' & others even in other times of service are having symptoms, too. Anyway, one man in the mid 80s who was an aviation ordenance man said he kept coming back to the jet fuel.

Recently I spoke with a current Green Beret that says he was doused in jet fuel many times standing behind the C-130s awaiting boarding as a paratrooper (In his case he also cleaned a lot of weapons). He has severe 'gulf war syndrome' ... fatigue, depression, grand mal seizures, personality change ... short term memory loss, can't concentrate ...

Your husband might check and see if others doing his job either have the 'symptoms' or are having difficulty having children. The solvents/pesticides/poisons that could be added to fuel and gun cleaner & do such are ethylene oxide or ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (2-butoxyethanol) these both target the testes; and jet fuels # 3,4,5, 6 are labeled as pesticides - so this is not a far stretch.

Does he seem tired a lot? Check the RETIC ratio & see if his red blood cells are full functioning or low functioning. (Too many immature red blood cells) ... one of these causes hemolytic anemia. But both can cause birth defects; or with too much exposure - maybe inability to have children, as the US Coast guardsman I reference, who shared with me last year about zero sperm count.

On the bright side: I know a family that gave up on having their own children after 12 years of marriage; and as soon as they adopted 2 brothers, the wife got pregnant with their own child.

Physically being able to have a child is not all that's necessary to have a son or daughter; being a father and a mother is still on the horizon, don't you think?