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New Yorkers looking for a bouncy, blond, blue-eyed baby are in a panic
as the city's largest sperm bank - and the only one with imported goods
- is running dry.
Cryos International, based in the Financial District, has gone to seed
because the Food and Drug Administration banned sperm samples from 30
countries to prevent the spread of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare,
fatal disorder caused by eating beef contaminated with mad-cow disease.

Two years after the measure, Cryos has run out of offerings from such
prized blond Norsemen as "Oluf," "Dagh," "Finn," "Ingi," "Jorn" and
"Ante."
If matters aren't resolved soon, say goodbye to "Jarls," "Sven,"
"Gorm" and "Leif," as well.
One Upper West Side couple, who has a daughter by the Danish donor
"Dane" and is looking to have another, was shocked by the ban.
The parents, both 41, purchased Dane's donation before it ran out. They
have enough left to try another artificial insemination, but if that
doesn't work they won't be able to give their 8-month-old daughter a
full sibling. "It's really stunning because I did want the same father
for my daughter," said the mother, whose husband was left sterile by a
childhood disease.
The couple chose Cryos because they wanted a child who resembled them.
"Dare we hope that here is some sort of magical Scandinavian sperm bank?
We looked on the Internet and found out about this clinic," she said.
Sperm-bank manager Claus Rodgaard said most of the Northern European
donor supplies will be gone by next year. "We have a waiting list of 15
to 20 couples," he said.