Test tube baby total hits five million

In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) has given the world about five million new people since the first test tube baby was born in England 34 years ago, the AFP news agency has reported.

As the initial controversy over man’s scientific manipulation of nature has faded, about 350,000 babies conceived in petri dishes are now born every year, said the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE).

That represents about 0.3 percent of the 130-million-odd babies added to the world population annually.

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