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[Ariel Salleh]

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From: Victor Leach <victor...@orsaa.org>

Subject: FW: A new study!

Date: 24 March 2026 22:07:36 GMT-3

To: Victor Leach <victor...@orsaa.org>

For Your Information - from Prof Olle Johansson

 

 

 

Dear Everyone on my mailing list,

 

A very important study regarding the functional impairment electrohypersensitivity, the functional impairment multiple chemical sensitivity, the disease asthma or asthma-related conditions, autism or autism spectrum disorders, and fragrance sensitivity in Australia, in the USA, and in Canada, has just been published by Dr Julie McCredden, Ms Lyn McLean, and Professor Anne Steinemann, in the journal Next Research, and shows that over 26 million adults are likely to experience health problems from exposure to wireless radiation in these three countries alone. That includes one in six Australians – over 4.5 million.

 

From my own, as well as other persons', work, the estimated total number, country-by-country, on the planet of persons with the functional impairment electrohypersensitivity has been reported to be somewhere between 3.5 - 13.3% (the latter found in Taiwan, 2007). This means, of the 8.2 billion people on the planet, approx. 287 - 1,090 million people are electrohypersensitive. (From my own calculations, I arrived at around 350 million people.)

 

In Sweden, the prevalence of the functional impairment electrohypersensitivity was first estimated at 1.5%, but a newer estimate is 2.6 - 3.2%. In Austria, the prevalence was estimated to be less than 2% in 1994 but it had increased to 3.5% in 2001. In Switzerland, 5% of the population has been estimated to suffer from the functional impairment electrohypersensitivity. In California, the prevalence of self-reported sensitivity to electromagnetic fields was 3.2%, and with 24.4% of those surveyed reporting sensitivity to chemicals as well. Finally, the Canadian Human Rights Commission reported that approximately 3% of Canadians have been diagnosed with environmental sensitivities, including chemicals and electromagnetic fields in their environment. In that particular report, the author especially recommended improving the environmental quality at workplaces. 

 

In the new report now presented by McCredden et al., to determine the prevalence of wireless sensitivity, Steinemann conducted an online survey using a random sample of 3,475 adults, who were statistically matched by age, gender, and location to the general populations in Australia, the USA, and Canada.

 

The researchers found that an average of 12.6% of all respondents reported experiencing wireless sensitivity. The highest prevalence was in Australia, where more than one in six adults were affected (17.4%), followed by the US (12.8%) and Canada (7.5%).

 

The study also investigated the prevalence of several other conditions linked to environmental exposures – chemical sensitivity, asthma, autism and fragrance sensitivity – and whether these conditions overlapped with wireless sensitivity and the functional impairment electrohypersensitivity. It found a large overlap for all conditions. 

 

The authors say that the link between wireless sensitivity, the functional impairment electrohypersensitivity, and other environmental conditions, suggests that similar effects might be occurring in the body. Previous research has also found common factors, such as inflammation, underlying sensitivity-related conditions.

 

A free download link to the paper and additional resources are available at:https://www.orsaa.org/ehs-research.html

 

With my very best regards

Yours sincerely

Olle

 

(Olle Johansson, associate professor)