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There is now so much news and media coverage of the health effects of electromagnetic fields that it's too difficult to keep up! Below represents 5 months at the beginning of 2006.

 

  • ABC News: Brain tumour cases prompt uni building closure 11th May 2006
  • Independent On Sunday: Electronic smog  7th May 2006
  • Health Protection Agency Acknowledges Electrosensitivity 5th November
  • Daily Mail: Phones can make you ill 12th September
  • Sunday Times: Electrical fields can make you sick 11th September
  • Powerwatch: WHO refuses to include leading expert's advice 26th April
  • The Courier Newspaper: Phone masts a risk to 'millions of lives' 08th March
  • BBC World Service Radio: Report On ElectroSensitivity 18th February
  • Daily Telegraph: Scientists serious about 'electricity sickness' claims 24th January

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      ABC News: Brain tumour cases prompt uni building closure
     

    11th May 2006

    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) has launched a second health and safety investigation in just five years, after seven staff members from the University's Bourke Street campus were diagnosed with brain tumours.

    Five of the cases are not malignant.

    The top floors of the Tivoli building are set to be closed.

    ABC News online: Brain tumour cases prompt uni building closure

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      Independent On Sunday: Electronic Smog
     

    7th May 2006

    The curse of the mobile phone age: around your home there are countless gadgets whose electrical fields, scientists now warn, are linked to depression, miscarriage and cancer

    By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor

    Invisible "smog" created by the electricity that powers our civilisation, is giving children cancer, causing miscarriages and suicides and making some people allergic to modern life, new scientific evidence reveals.

    Independent On Sunday: Electroic Smog Article

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      Health Protection Agency Acknowledges ElectroSensitivity
     

    5th November 2005

    The Health Protection Agency (HPA) today published a 45 page report acknowledging that ElectroSensitivity is a real condition with real sufferers. It is the first time a government agency has admitted that electricity can have harmful effects.

    The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph both picked up on the story. Strangely, the Guardian newspaper managed to come to their own conclusion, leading with "Electrical fields 'harmless'".


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    fDaily Telegraph: Expert put a health warning on 'electrical allergy' advice
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    fThe Guardian: Electrical fields harmless

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      Daily Mail Newspaper: Phones can make you ill
     

    12th September 2005

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    Read the Full Article     - "Radiation from mobile phones, computers and microwave ovens could be damaging your health, Government experts are to admit for the first time. In a report next month, they will acknowledge that the items could be causing headaches, joint pain, depression and fatigue in some users who have developed a sensitivity to electricity."

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      Sunday Times Newspaper: Electrical fields can make you sick
     

    11th September 2005

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    Read the Full Article     - "A GOVERNMENT agency has acknowledged for the first time that people can suffer nausea, headaches and muscle pains when exposed to electromagnetic fields from mobile phones, electricity pylons and computer screens"

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      Powerwatch: WHO refuses to include leading experts evidence
     

    26th April 2005

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    Professor Olle Johansson, a leading world expert into electrical hypersensitivity, attended the October 2004 World Health Organization "Workshop on EMF Hypersensitivity" in Prague. The organizers have refused to include his formal reservation in the summary of the workshop.

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      The Courier: Phone masts a risk to 'millions of lives'
     

    08th March 2005

    Scottish-based newspaper The Courier talk to Olle Johansson about the impact of Mobile Phone masts on the whole of the western population.

    Read the Full Article - “The basic scientific issue is not primarily about the exact sitting of base stations, it is about whether it is all right to irradiate the whole population with microwaves, and likewise. This is, of course, a full-scale human experiment, with you and me and the St Andrews kids in it.”

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      BBC World Service: Live On The Radio
     

    18th February 2005

    On The 18th February 2005, the BBC World Service "Outlook" programme held a 12 minute radio show on ElectroSensitivity. In it, they spoke to leading expert Olle Johansson, and 2 sufferers on their symptoms, and how they cope.

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    Listen Now  12 Minutes - (4.29MB)

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      Daily Telegraph Newspaper: Scientists serious about 'electricity sickness' claims
     

    24th January 2005

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    Read The full Article - "Some researchers believe a proportion of the population suffers ill health, with symptoms including fatigue, severe headaches and skin problems, because of exposure to electromagnetic fields."...

    UK sufferer Brian Stein talks about his life with ElectroSensitivity - "I suspect that in 20 years we will have a problem that will make the issue of asbestos pale into insignificance."..

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    Thu Jul 3 10:06:49 2008
    michael bellis:

    i have been suffering ES for over 5 years and dispite the overwhelming proof i have i still got sectioned under the mental health act.my health has slowly gone down hill as the nightmare just keeps getting worse.My GP and psychiatrist believe that at first i was a paranoid schizophrenic now i am just delusional.Even though i was having serious electrical problems at my house.I have asked them to do test on me but all get is a rye smile and a take your medication if i dont i risk getting sectioned again.The not understanding of the medical staff i will live with but when they refuse to look at the true facts and the evidence or even my family and friends which backs up my story i am at there mercy which means my life is well and truly destroyed both phyisicaly and mentaly.And they say i am at risk of hurting myself or possibly others when there blindness is killing me.I have no previous health issues nor do my family.I have never hurt anyone or wanted too.I am sure as hell not going to hurt myself in anyway no matter how bad or depressing this is.What can i do ?. 

    Tue Sep 30 11:56:14 2008
    Stuart:

    I suffer to but, you need to be more careful on how you approach the subject. I say that I am allergic to man made electricity. This seems to sit with people better. Everyone understands allergies because most people have them. I think more people understand me these days becuase i am passive about the subject. I also think with more exposure and more people becoming aware of their sensitivity it will aid our fight. I think there needs to be more awareness on the subject.  

    Sun Mar 8 11:36:40 2009
    Mary:

    I have no one to compare my EHS with but believe I suffer badly,like Michael Bellis people I have spoken to thought I was experiencing mental problems NO I AM NOT I am a perfectly normal down to earth woman who this condition simply crept on me when I changed my television for an up to date HD model and at the same time started using Broadband.These symptoms I experience my neighbours used to have and I believed 'they where going funny'one died one was put into an home the other moved away.This area I live in is next to a busy railway station with Mobile phone masts a new one just been put up recently. 

    Tue Mar 31 21:26:45 2009
    Chris:

    Have done a lot of research on this after watching the Panorama programme about the dangers of wireless internet and mobile phones. I've now worked out that i'm sensitive to 3g mobile signals when browsing the internet on my phone, wireless internet and bluetooth. There's more on my blog here: http://dooza-whatsonmymind.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-i-cant-play-my-playstation-3.html 

     
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