Allergic to Wi-Fi?
Filed in archive Wi-Fi on July 26, 2009
The Sun's Dave Masters this week broke the story of British DJ Steve Miller, who claims to have electromagnetic hypersensitivity — he's allergic to Wi-Fi.
"For Steve Miller a trip to his local High Street is a living hell that makes him sick, dizzy and confused," Masters writes. "Pubs make him feel the same and he can't use trains, airports or hotels without experiencing head-banging Agony... and sadly for him - and the other two per cent of the population with electromagnetic hypersensitivity - the number of people pumping out the wireless Internet signal is on the rise."
The Telegraph's Ian Douglas is just one of many who aren't buying it. "I don't know Mr Miller, I've never spoken to him," he writes. "My first thought, though, when someone tells me they have an unexplained feeling whenever they're in a variety of public places that only goes away when they're at home is not that they're mysteriously allergic to something that that is present at every point of the earth's surface, but that they may be agoraphobic."
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Last year WiFi was removed from Paris libraries after librarians complained of the same symptoms of migraines, dizziness, etc. after it had been installed. There are 1000's of studies showing adverse effects from this radiation such as double strand DNA breaks in rats. (2.45 GHz Lai and Singh 1996)
The radiation intensity is trillions of times higher than the natural microwave background levels. It was never tested for safety before being used in telecoms from the 1990's onwards.
http://www.mastsanity.org/index.php?option=com_...
WiFi- A warning signal
http://www.wifiinschools.org.uk/8.html
David Carpenter, MD, Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment, School of Public Health, University of Albany, New York, has said
'Based on the existing science, many public health experts believe it is possible we will face an epidemic of cancers in the future resulting from uncontrolled use of cell phones and increased population exposure to Wi-Fi and other wireless devices. Thus it is important that all of us, and especially children, restrict our use of cell phones, limit exposure to background levels of Wi-Fi, and that government and industry discover ways in which to allow use of wireless devices without such elevated risk of serious disease. We need to educate decision-makers that 'business as usual' is unacceptable. The importance of this public health issue can not be underestimated'.