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Dear CHE colleagues and others.
I am forwarding a poignant statement,
prepared by a person suffering from electrical hypersensitivity.
-- did not go so far as to indicate one
of the causal factors are electromagnetic fields. Since I know this
person and so many others whose lives have been disrupted due to this
health condition, it is frustrating to learn how their individual
rights are impaired due to the involuntary exposure conditions they are
forced to endure. In 2003, the World Health Organization
recognized that EHS is a health condition however it known as
electrical hypersensitivity. At the same time. the WHO did not go so
far as to link this condition to any one causal factor rather it stated
that the causes are unknown. Well, according to the independent
scientists, including tose who signed the Benevento resolution (www.icems.eu), for the growing
number of people who suffer the effects of this condition, now
counting over 130 million people world wide, one of the known
causes is EMF exposure. The Benevento scientists state
that EHS may be genetically related and call for more investigations as
to cause and for reduced EMF exposures as a precautionary measure.
Regards
Libby Kelley
www.energyfields.org
Managing Secretariat
International Commission For Electromagnetic Safety
Email: info@icems.eu
Web: www.icems.eu,
Human Rights in America:
The Story of the Tragic Loss of Basic Rights
There is a growing group
of people who may be having their human rights stripped from them right
here in America.
These electro-sensitive people are experiencing profound health impacts
from microwaves (MW) and radio-frequency (RF) fields, created by the
unprecedented growth of wireless communications technologies
everywhere. And now, there is nowhere
in the US free from these radio waves. Yet the federal
government continues to sell more RF-spectrum and has refused to
formerly recognize human health sensitivity from electromagnetic fields
(EMF).
Just like to the
proverbial canary in the coal mine, whose sudden death served to warn
miners of deadly gases underground, scores of electro-sensitive human
canaries are now experiencing profound health effects from invisible
radio waves from cell phones, wireless computers, WiFi, GPS,
leaky microwave ovens, game consoles, radar and satellites. Are they
warning the rest of us? Electro-sensitive (ES) people are reporting
rashes, memory loss, unexplained headaches and head pain,
muscular-skeletal disorders, sleep disturbances, cognitive diminution,
loss of libido, burning of the skin and host of other symptoms that
correlate with exposures to wireless technologies.
It should come as no
surprise that we may be finally reaching a tipping point in our health,
arising from the mass adoption of wireless technologies. Since the
mid-1970’s, more than 600 largely-ignored studies on the bio-effects of
radio-frequency (RF) fields have shown health impacts from the
biological interaction with radio-waves, even at low-levels. The recent
explosion of wireless technologies, which has created radio-frequency
fields that are now 100-150 times as intense as they were as in 2000,
has also created a burgeoning electrosmog over our cities, suburbs and
countryside. The FCC claims that in a typical US
suburb there are now more than 1200 fixed radio-frequency signals
within a mile of us at any given time. This does not account for the
signals coming from hundreds of cell phones, or mobile devices nearby,
which are transmitting every eight seconds, even while they are on
standby.
The problem is that no one
can see these waves and most cannot feel them and thus the US
federal government, industry and others deny that this health problem
exists. However, a growing body of science shows that between 1-3% of
the population is becoming sensitive to radio-waves and
electro-magnetic fields (EMF). The State of California
performed a health survey, which pegged nearly one million (3%) in
their state as electro-sensitive and as many as 125,000 disabled from
electromagnetic fields (1/3 of one percent). In Sweden, an early
adopting nation of wireless technologies, between 230,000 and 290,000
(2.3 - 2.9%) people are reporting disabilities from
Electro-Hypersensitivity (EHS), according to data provided by the City
of Stockholm. In September 2006, the health ministry of Great Britain
formerly recognized a health disability from sensitivity to
electro-magnetic fields.
For those unfortunate
technology canaries, the personal impact has been harsh. Some have
learned to live with it, fortifying their homes against the waves,
while suffering through the symptoms. Others have run for the hills.
Reports show that thousands have fled to the high dessert or remote
caverns in rural areas to get away from the wireless technologies.
I have personally met more
than two dozen electro-sensitive people and what has struck me most is
their level of education, professional credentials and their unanimous
desire for anonymity. Four are PhD’s., two attorneys, a pharmacist, a
radio personality, a pre-medical student, seven executives, more than
half graduated from tier-one universities.
Many with electromagnetic
sensitivities have been misdiagnosed, and misunderstood. Others are
being treated for psychological issues. Still others, who show the
symptoms, have not yet made the connection between unexplained symptoms
and the invisible radio waves. What’s clearly suppressing the awareness
of this issue is a profound reticence on the part of electro sensitive
people to come forward and admit publicly to their society-imposed
health condition.
Where Will
They Go?
In the meantime, the
question is: are these people being denied their basic constitutional
rights? The biggest fear of these people:
In 2009 TV will switch to digital and
WiMax will begin to come online. What will happen to these
EMF-sensitive people? Where will they
go?
Informant: Martin Weatherall
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