WiMAX Makes Swedes Feel Crappy
Engadget's Paul Miller today picks up on word from The Inquirer that a WiMAX base station recently installed in the Swedish town of Götene caused a major health scare.
"According to Sweden's SVT, which reported on the incident, the local hospital emergency room was flooded with calls regarding various symptoms such as headaches, difficulty breathing, blurry vision and even two cases of heart arrhythmia," Miller writes. "All of this was mere hours after the base station was activated, and the symptoms went away once the station was deactivated, or if the sufferer moved away from that radio tower of death."
The Swedes blame the symptoms on electromagnetic hypersensitivity, or EHS, which they say affects approximately three percent of the world's population. As Miller puts it, "We'll wait for a few more studies to come through and completely conflict with each other so we can go on with our happily ignorant mobile lifestyles."