Girls on top as Covid stress overturns newborn boys’ dominance

Tip in birth sex ratio has been observed before, such as in UK after Diana’s death and in Slovenia after 1991 war

16 February 2022 - 20:15

A researcher who revealed a boom in the birth of boys nine months after SA hosted the Soccer World Cup in 2010 has done it again ... but this time the backdrop of his finding is less uplifting...

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