Lara Bussi Trabucco, whose arrival was the first birth in her village of Pagliara dei Marsi, Abruzzo, Italy, in almost 30 years. oberto Salomone/The GuardianLara Bussi Trabucco, whose arrival was the first birth in her village of Pagliara dei Marsi, Abruzzo, Italy, in almost 30 years. oberto Salomone/The GuardianLettersThe reason for Italy’s ‘demographic winter’Peter Foreshaw Brookes says worry about falling sperm counts is misplacedThe Italian “demographic winter” has a number of causes, but rising male biological infertility is not one (A child is born: Italians celebrate village’s first baby in 30 years, 26 December). A lot of worry about falling sperm counts has been generated by some studies, but a more recent meta‑analysis found, through inclusion of regional controls, an increase in US sperm counts between 1970 and 2018.
