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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0110.119 2024-2026 PIrcPWo 1L. 24, ORAff 4- Co ul. f 1D Dangers of 5G Electromagnetic Frequencies (EMFs) Scientific Research, Studies, Articles, References � �r. f • •' ��1111 • i 'e N: litlioiiit f:1k1 'r, , 4 1 t ; : i j it a'33': rt . NillE ,,e i • :� 1 ` • .)4 '•v 46 ry` pil '. S '1I3 . 2 ' i . "6.66-^-4' '::.47.14 -' y District No. 7 a:Ar. Council Member R / d a� ..... 4 '� 4S i a ' f S a #,1i f. pia . ,�, i • ,: , comm. Ref. To: 1 VIIIIIIWA Ref. Dole MAY 2 2 2O 1 May 19, 2025 Hawaii County Council Members District 1 - Heather L. Kimball District 2 - Jennifer "Jenn" Kagiwada District 3 - Dennis "Fresh" Onishi District 4 - Ashley L. Kierkiewicz -:, District 5 - Matt Kaneali'i-Kleinfelder District 6- Michelle Galimba District 7- Rebecca Villegas T District 8 - Dr. Holeka Goro Inaba District 9 - James E. Eustace RE: Written testimony and Packet of 5G Research/Studies/Articles/Cellphone Questions and Answers prepared by (Fay)Kalei Kailikini, living at Hilo, Hawaii representing myself and my Ohana. I have attended and testified at numerous hearings on the 5G expansion for Hawaii County that began with the Policy Committee on Planning, Land Use, and Economic Development and Hawaii County Windward and Leeward Planning Commissions. I am vehemently against any of our elected representatives to vote in favor of the Telecommunications Companies that continue to saturate our Hawaii Island communities with highly dangerous electromagnetic frequencies. Many testifiers are against 5G expansion because of the numerous dangers to the public that are already manifesting in illnesses ranging from headaches to cancers. In my oral testimonies I often refer to the County of Hawaii -"RESOLUTION NO. 678-20 "A RESOLUTION CALLING UPON ALL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES OPERATING IN HAWAII COUNTY TO CEASE THE BUILDOUT OF 5G WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE UNTIL SUCH 2 TECHNOLOGIES HAVE BEEN PROVEN THROUGH INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND TESTING TO BE SAFE TO HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT." Dated July 2020, Mayor Kim; 8 County Council Members voted YES to cease the Buildout of 5G Wireless and 1 Council Member vote NO. It was passed. This Resolution is the moral obligation to protect Hawaii Island residents'health and safety from all County Council Members past and present. Halting 5G proliferation will provide safety measures against 5G dangers to our health and the health of our environment. A newspaper article was written dated July 23, 2020 in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald front page &page A7 written by Michael Brestovansky titled "5G Infrastructure County Council being cautious". Mayor Kim, and the eight(8) County Council Members need to be commended for this due diligence and moral fortitude protecting Hawaii Island residents and our environment. One example of serious concerns stated in this Resolution is"Whereas,populations especially at risk from this exposure include pregnant women,children,the elderly, and individuals with implanted medical devices, or cardiac or neurological problems; Attached packet of information on the dangers of 5G that include,but not limited to the following: 1. Copy of County of Hawaii RESOLUTION NO. 678-20 2. Links to Scientific Evidence: DANGERS of 5G 3. Article Sept. 19, 2012 by Marco Torres: "Neurosurgeon Shows How Low Levels of Radiation Such as WiFi, Smart Meters and Cell Phones Cause the Blood Brain Barrier to Leak" 4. 5G Statistics #1 5. Mortality Statistics-5G #2 6. 5G Studies Articles-Dr.Hammer,Dr. Santini 7. Cellphones Questions and Answers 8. Cellphone Radiation Article r- 3 9. Children's Health Defense article April 15, 2023 by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. "CHD Petitions FCC to "Quit Stalling" on Court Order to Address Harmful Effects of Wireless Radiation" 10. Children's Health Defense article dated April 16, 2021 by Dafna Tachover, Esq. "Family Sues Telecom Giants,Alleging They Hid Risks of Cell Phone Radiation That Caused Man's Brain Cancer" 11. MICROWAVES, 2011 Summary of a Problem 12. Excerpts from"Microwaving Our Planet by Arthur Firstenberg 1997 13. Ecologist Informed by Nature article dated April 18, 2007"Mobile phone study covered up" 14. Journal of Community Medicine &Public Health-Case Report by Mona Nilsson &Lennart Hardell Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation, Orebro, Sweden dated November 13, 2023. "A 49-Year-Old Man Developed Severe Microwave Syndrome after Activation of 5G Base Station 20 Meters from his Apartment". 15. Electrical Sensitivity report by Arthur Firstenberg & Susan Molloy, dated July 1, 2002. 16. Kiwikiu (Maui Parrotbill) one of the several critically endangered indigenous Hawaiian birds, article by Arthur Firstenberg on the Oct. 2019 Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project(MFBRP) Kiwikiu bird study. fk..54 1(7 - emu d y /ai - cagn', • • COUNTY OF HAWAI'I I*f ='� :- • STATE OF HAWAN C., \ ::::::r0:::4,Ly; • RESOLUTION NO. 678 8 20 A RESOLUTION CALLING UPON ALL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES OPERATING IN HAWAI`I COUNTY TO CEASE THE BUILDOUT OF 5G WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE UNTIL SUCH TECHNOLOGIES HAVE BEEN PROVEN THROUGH INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND TESTING TO BE SAFE TO HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT. WHEREAS,the telecommunications industry is engaged in a deployment of microwave and millimeter-wave '!small cell" antennas across the County to facilitate the fifth generation of wireless communications known as 5G;and WHEREAS, the T-Mobile website is advertising that areas across the State of Hawai`i have 5G coverage; and WHEREAS,this new technology uses existing wireless infrastructure and new types of radio-frequency (RF)microwave radiation to transmit large amounts of data,but requires significantly closer proximity to users,resulting in the dense deployment of antennas near residences, schools,and hospitals;and ( WHEREAS,the deployment of 5G-enabled small cell antennas in our neighborhoods raises serious questions regarding the potential health and environmental impacts of long-term exposure to untested RF microwave radiation frequencies; and WHEREAS,the Federal.Communications Commission has not conducted any long-term safety testing of new 5G wireless technologies, and has failed to update its human RF microwave radiation exposure guidelines since 1996,despite being advised to do so by the U.S. General Accounting Office,the American Academy of Pediatrics,and.hundreds of medical and scientific experts from around the world;and . WHEREAS,telecommunications industry leaders have publicly admitted that they have not conducted any safety tests to determine the possible adverse health and environmental effects from exposure to RF microwave radiation emitted by 5G-enabled small cell antennas; and - WHEREAS, a significant body of published,peer-reviewed,independent science links exposure to IF microwave radiation with serious enviromnental and biological harm,including increased risk of cancer,reproductive problems,and neurological impairments can be found at https://www.5gcrisis.comiscientific-studies;and WHEREAS,populations.especially at risk from this exposure include pregnant women, children,the elderly,and individuals with implanted medical devices, or cardiac or neurological problems; and r,- WHEREAS,in its 2019 SONAR Emerging Risk Report, which focuses on systematic observation of notions associated with risk, Swiss Re,the second-largest re-insurance company in the world, called 5G a"high impact" liability risk due to health risk; and WHEREAS, the theory that exposure to RF microwave radiation is harmless,which has been the underlying principle of all federal legislation and regulations regarding wireless technologies for more than twenty years, has now been proven false;now,therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI`I that it calls upon all telecommunications companies and•public utilities operating in Hawai`i County to cease the buildout of 5G-enabled small cell antennas until such technologies have been proven 1 safe beyond a reasonable doubt through independent research and the public health and welfare can be assured. BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the County Clerk shall transmit a copy of this resolution to the Honorable Harry Kim;Mayor; Roy Takemoto,Managing Director, and Michael Yee, Director of Planning. Dated at ,Hawaii,this _day of , 20__ INTRODUCED BY: • . COUNCIL M( BER, LINTY OF HAWAI`I • COUNTY COUNCIL _ ROLL CALL VOTE • County of Hawai`i • AYES NOES ABS EX Hilo,Hawai`i CHUNG DAVID I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by• EOFF the vote indicated to the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL of the KAr EALI`I-KLEIM EI DER County of Hawai`i on — KIERKIEWICZ LEE LOY ATTEST: POINDEXTER RICHARDS •VILL.EGAS Reference: C-986/PC' -- ;OUNTY CLERK CHAIRPERSON&PRESIDING OFFICER RESOLUTION NO. 678 20 2 Links to Scientific Evidence; Dangers of 5G Video of individuals who suffered grave physical effects of being close to smart(?) kmeters https://ma4safetech.us2 0.list- manage.com/track/click?u=62f2cbcbd8eeef4c8fe3da281&id=a1b2395125&e=39d643 33cb ®' Y® There is a 5G tower on the edge of Waiki'i Ranch. You can clearly see while on old Saddle Rd when driving where the subdivision is on the west. Effects On Fetal And Newborn Development 1. "Mother's Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields Before and During Pregnancy is Associated with Risk of Speech Problems in Offspring." Zarei, S., et al. Journal of Biomedical Physics and Engineering 9(1):61-68 (2019). 2. Prenatal Exposure to Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Field and Its Impact on Fetal Growth. Ren, Y., et al. Environmental Health (2019). 3. "The Effects of Radio Frequency Radiation on Mice Fetus Weight, Length and Tissues." Alimohammadi, I., et al. Data in Brief 19:2189-2194 (2018). 4. "Effects of Prenatal Exposure to WiFi Signal (2.45 GHz) on Postnatal Development and Behavior in Rat: Influence of Maternal Restraint." Othman, H., et al. Behavioral Brain Research 326: 291-301 (2017). 5. "Exposure to Magnetic Field Non-Ionizing Radiation and the Risk of Miscarriage: A prospective Cohort Study." Li, De-Kun, et al. Scientific Reports (2017). 6. "Postnatal Development and Behavior Effects of In-Utero Exposure of Rats to Radiofrequency Waves Emitted From Conventional WiFi Devices." Othman, H., et al. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology 52:239-247 (2017). 7. "Lasting Hepatotoxic Effects of Prenatal Mobile Phone Exposure."Yilmaz, A., et al. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine 30(11): 1355-1359 (2017). 8. "Multiple Assessment Methods of Prenatal Exposure to Radio Frequency Radiation from Telecommunication in the Mothers and Children's Environmental Health (MOCEH) Study." Choi, Ha, et al. International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health 29(6):959-972 (2016). 9. "The Use of Signal-Transduction and Metabolic Pathways to Predict Human Disease Targets from Electric and Magnetic Fields Using in vitro Data in Human Cell Lines." Parham, Portier, et al. Frontiers in Public Health (2016). 10. "A Review on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) and the Reproductive System." Asghari, Khaki, et al. Electronic Physician 8(7):2655-2662 (2016). 11. "Genotoxicity Induced by Foetal and Infant Exposure to Magnetic Fields and Modulation of Ionising Radiation Effects." Udroiu, Antoccia, et al. PLoS One (2015). 12. "Oxidative Stress of Brain and Liver is Increased by Wi-Fi (2.45 GHz) Exposure of Rats During Pregnancy and the Development of Newborns." Celik, Omer, et al. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy 75(B):134-139 (2015). C13. "Neurodegenerative Changes and Apoptosis Induced by Intrauterine and Extrauterine Exposure of Radiofrequency Radiation."Giiler, Goknur, et al. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy 75(B):128-133 (2015). 14. "Maternal Exposure to a Continuous 900-MHz Electromagnetic Field Provokes Neuronal Loss and Pathological Changes in Cerebellum of 32-Day-Old Female Rat Offspring." Odaci, Ersan, et al. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy 75(B):105-110 (2015). 15. "Different Periods of Intrauterine Exposure to Electromagnetic Field: Influence on Female Rats' Fertility, Prenatal and Postnatal Development." Alchalabi, Aklilu, et al. Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction 5(1):14-23 (2015). 16. "Use of Mobile Phone During Pregnancy and the Risk of Spontaneous Abortion." Mahmoudabadi, Ziaei, et al. Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering 13:34 (2015). 17. "Oxidative Mechanisms of Biological Activity of Low-Intensity Radiofrequency Radiation." Yakymenko, et al. Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine 34(3):1-16 (2015). 18. "Effects of Prenatal 900 MHz Electromagnetic Field Exposures on the ( Histology of Rat Kidney." Ulubay, et al. International Journal of Radiation Biology 91(1):35-41 (2015). 19. "The Effect of Exposure of Rats During Prenatal.Period to Radiation Spreading from Mobile Phones on Renal Development. "Bedir, et al. Renal Failure 37(2):305-9 (2014). 20. "Dosimetric Study of Fetal Exposure to Uniform Magnetic Fields at 50 Hz." Liorni, et al. Bioelectromagnetics 35(8):580-97 (2014). 21. "Influence of Pregnancy Stage and Fetus Position on the Whole-Body and Local Exposure of the Fetus to RF-EMF." Varsier, et al. Physics in Medicine and Biology 59(17):4913-26 (2014). 22. "Autism-Relevant Social Abnormalities in Mice Exposed Perinatally to Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields."Alsaeed, et al. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience 37:58-6 (2014). 23. "Pyramidal Cell Loss in the Cornu Ammonis of 32-day-old Female Rats Following Exposure to a 900 Megahertz Electromagnetic Field During Prenatal Days 13-21." Bas, et al. NeuroQuantology Volume 11, Issue 4: 591-599 (2013). 24. "The Effects of 900 Megahertz Electromagnetic Field Applied in the Prenatal Period on Spinal Cord Morphology and Motor Behavior in Female Rat Pups." Odaci, et al. NeuroQuantology Volume 11, Issue 4: 573-581 (2013). "Fetal Radiofrequency Radiation Exposure From 800-1900 MHz-Rated C 25. Cellular Telephones Affects Neurodevelopment and Behavior in Mice." Aldad, Gan, et al. Scientific Reports ;2(312) (2013). 26. "Cranial and Postcranial Skeletal Variations Induced in Mouse Embryos by Mobile Phone Radiation." Fragopoulou, Koussoulakos, et al. Pathophysiology 17(3):169-77 (2010). C' 27. "Dysbindin Modulates Prefrontal Cortical Glutamatergic Circuits and Working Memory Function in Mice." Jentsch, et al Neuropsychopharmacology 34, 2601-8 (2009). 28. "Stress Signaling Pathways that Impair Prefrontal Cortex Structure and Function." Arnsten, A. F. National Review of Neuroscience 10, 410-22 (2009). 29. "Maternal Occupational Exposure to Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Fields and the Risk of Brain Cancer in the Offspring." Li, Mclaughlin, et al. Cancer Causes & Control 20(6):945-55 (2009). 30. "Reproductive and Developmental Effects of EMF in Vertebrate Animal Models." Pourlis, A.F. Pathophysiology 16(2-3):179-89 (2009). 31. "Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Cell Phone Use and Behavioral Problems in Children." Divan, Kheifets, et al. Epidemiology19(4):523-29 (2008). 32. "Effects of Prenatal Exposure to a 900 MHz Electromagnetic Field on the Dentate Gyrus of Rats: A Stereological and Histopathological Study." Odaci, et al. Brain Research 1238: 224-229 (2008). 33. "Exposure to Cell Phone Radiation Up-Regulates Apoptosis Genes in Primary Cultures of Neurons and Astrocytes." Zhao, et al. Science Digest 412: 34- 38 (2007). 34. "Cell Death Induced by GSM 900-MHz and DCS 1800-MHz Mobile Telephony Radiation." Panagopoulos, et al. Mutation Research626, 69-78 (2006). 35. "Ultra High Frequency-Electromagnetic Field Irradiation During Pregnancy Leads to an Increase in Erythrocytes Micronuclei Incidence in Rat Offspring." Ferreira, Knakievicz, et al. Life Sciences 80(1):43-50 (2006). 36. "Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder." Biederman, J. & Faraone, S. V. Lancet 366, 237-248 (2005). 37. "Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: An Overview of the Etiology and a Review of the Literature Relating to the Correlates and Life Course Outcomes for Men and Women." Brassett-Harknett, A. & Butler, N. Clinical Psychology Review 27,188-210 (2005). II. Effects On Young Children 1. "Electromagnetic Fields, Pulsed Radiofrequency Radiation, and Epigenetics: How Wireless Technologies May Affect Childhood Development." Sage, C. & Burgio, E. Child Development (2017). c 2. "Prospective Cohort Analysis of Cellphone Use and Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties in Children." Sudan, M, et al. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2016). r 3. "Why Children Absorb More Microwave Radiation than Adults: The Consequences." Morgan, Kesari, et al. Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure 2(4):196-204 (2014). C, 4. "Epidemiological Characteristics of Mobile Phone Ownership and Use in Korean Children and Adolescents." Byun, Yoon-Hwan, et al. Environmental Health and Toxicology 28 (2013). 5. "A Prospective Study of In-Utero Exposure to Magnetic Fields and the Risk of Childhood Obesity." Li, De-Kun, et al. Scientific Reports 2.540 (2012). 6. "Exposure to Extremely Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields and the Risk of Childhood Cancer: Update of the Epidemiological evidence." Schiiz and Joachim. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 107(3):339-42 (2011). 7. "Cell Phone Use and Behavioural Problems in Young Children." Divan, Kheifets, et al. Journal of Epidemiol Community Health 66(6):524-9 (2010). 8. "Mobile Phones, Radiofrequency Fields, and Health Effects in Children- Epidemiological Studies." Feychting, Maria. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 107(3):343-348 (2010). 9. Exposure to Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields and Behavioral Problems in Bavarian Children and Adolescents." Thomas, Silke, et al. European Journal of Epidemiology 25(2):135-41 (2009). 10. "The Sensitivity of Children to Electromagnetic Fields." Repacholi, et al. Deventer. Journal of Pediatrics 116(2):303-313 (2005). III. Brain Tumors 1. "Simulation of The Incidence of Malignant Brain Tumors in Birth Cohorts That Started Using Mobile Phones When They First Became Popular in Japan." Sato, Y., Kojimahara, N., and Yamaguchi, N. Bioelectromagnetics.40(3): 143-149 (2019). 2. "Report of Final Results Regarding Brain and Heart Tumors in Sprague-Dawley Rats Exposed From Prenatal Life Unitl Natural Death to Mobile Phone Radiofrequency Field Representative of a 1.8 GHz GSM Base Station Environmental Emission." Falcioni, L, et al. Environmental Research (2018). 3. "Exposure to Cell Phone Radiofrequency Changes Corticotrophin Hormone Levels and Histology of The Brain and Adrenal Glands in Male Wistar Rat." Shahabi, S., et al. Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences 21:1269-1274 (2018). 4. "Brain Tumours: Rise in Glioblastoma Multiforme Incidence in England 1995- 2015 Suggests an Adverse Environmental or Lifestyle Factor." Philips, A., et al. Journal of Environmental and Public Health (2018). 5. "The 2100 MHz Radiofrequency Radiation of a 3G-Mobile Phone and the DNA Oxidative Damage in Brain." Sahin, Ozgur, et al. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy 75(B):94-98 (2016). r 6. "Mobile Phone and Cordless Phone Use and the Risk for Glioma - Analysis of Pooled Case- Control Studies in Sweden 1997-2003 and 2007-2009." Hardell and Carlberg. PathoPhysiology 22(1):1-13 (2015). C7. "Mobile Phone Radiation Causes Brain Tumors and Should Be Classified as a Probable Human Carcinogen." Morgan, Miller, et al. International Journal of Oncology 46:1865-1871 (2015). 8. "Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumours in the CERENAT Case-Control Study." Coureau, Bouvier, et al. Occupational & Environmental Medicine 71(7):514-22 (2014). 9. "Use of Mobile Phones and Cordless Phones is Associated with Increased Risk for Glioma and Acoustic Neuroma." Hardell, Carberg, et al. PathoPhysiology 20(2):85-110 (2013). 10. "Mobile Phones and Head Tumours: A Critical Analysis of Case-Control Epidemiological Studies." Levis, Minicuci, et al. Open Environmental Sciences 6(1):1-12 (2012). 11. "On the Association Between Glioma, Wireless Phones, Heredity and Ionising Radiation." Carlberg,and Hardell. PathoPhysiology19(4):243-252 (2012). 12. "Mobile Phones and Head Tumours. The Discrepancies in Cause-Effect Relationships in the Epidemiological Studies - How Do They Arise?" Levis, Minicuci, et al. Environmental Health 10:59 (2011). ( 13. "Indications of Possible Brain Tumour Risk in Mobile-Phone Studies: Should We Be Concerned?" Cardis and Sadetzki. Occupational & Environmental Medicine 68:169-171 (2011). 14. "Estimating the Risk of Brain Tumors from Cell Phone Use: Published Case- Control Studies." Morgan, LL. Pathophysiology 16(2-3):137-147 (2009). 15. "Cell Phones and Brain Tumors: A Review Including the Long-Term Epidemiologic Data." Khurana, Teo, et al. Surgical Neurology72(3):205-14 (2009). 16. "Epidemiological Evidence for an Association Between Use of Wireless Phones and Tumor Diseases." Hardell, Carlberg, et al. PathoPhysiology 16(2- 3):113-122 (2009). 17. "Histopathological Examinations of Rat Brains After Long-Term Exposure to GSM Mobile Phone Radiation." Grafstrom, Gustav, et al. Brain Research Bulletin 77(5):257-63 (2008). 18. "Mobile Phone Use and the Risk of Acoustic Neuroma." Lonn, Ahlbom, et al. Epidemiology 15(6):653-659 (2004). IV. Parotid Gland Tumors 1. I nfluence of Handheld Mobiles on Parotid: A Cohort Study. Ranjitha, G., et al. Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine & Radiology 29:254-258 (2017). 2. "Does Cell Phone Use Increase the Chances of Parotid Gland Tumor Development? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." De Siqueira, de Souza, et al. Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine 45(11) (2016). C3. "Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies on Acoustic Neuroma Diagnosed 1997- 2003 and 2007- 2009 and Use of Mobile and Cordless Phones." Hardell, Carlberg, et al. International Journal of Oncology 43(4):1036-144 (2015). 4. "Using the Hill Viewpoints from 1965 for Evaluating Strengths of Evidence of the Risk for Brain Tumors Associated with use of Mobile and Cordless Phones." Hardell and Carlberg. Reviews on Environmental Health 28(2-3):97- 106 (2013). 5. "Case-Control study of the Use of Mobile and Cordless Phones and the Risk for Malignant Melanoma in the Head and Neck Region." Hardell, Carlberg, et al. Pathpphysiology 18(4):325-333 (2011). 6. "Correlation Between Cellular Phone Use and Epithelial Parotid Gland Malignancies." Duan, Zhang, et al. Clinical Paper Head and Oncology 40(9):966-7 (2011). 7. "Mobile Phones Use and Risk of Tumors: A Meta-Analysis." Mynf, Ju, et al. Journal of Clinical Oncology 27(33):5565-72 (2009). 8. "Mobile Phone, Cordless Phones and the Risk for Brain Tumours." Hardell and Carlberg. International Journal of Oncology 35(1):5-17 (2009). 9. "Public Health Implications of Wireless Technologies." Sage and Carpenter. PathoPhysiology 16(2-3):233-46 (2009). ( 10. "Epidemiological Evidence for an Association Between use of Wireless Phones and Tumor Diseases." Hardell, Carlberg, et al. PathoPhysiology 16(2- 3):113-122 (2009). 11. "Cell Phone Use and Risk of Benign and Malignant Parotid Gland Tumors - A Nationwide Case- Control Study." Sadetzki, Chetrit, et al. American Journal of Epidemiology 167(4):457-467 (2008). V. Other Malignancies 1. "The Carcinogenic Potential of Non-Ionizing Radiations: The Cases of S-50 Hz MF and 1.8 GHz GSM Radiofrequency Radiation." Soffritti, M. and Giuliani, L. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology (2019). 2. "Tumor Promotion by Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields Below Exposure Limits for Humans." Lerchl, Klose, et al. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 459(4):585-590 (2015). 3. "Swedish Review Strengthen Grounds for Concluding that Radiation from Cellular and Cordless Phones is a Probable Human Carcinogen." Davis, Kesari, et al. Pathophysiology 20(2):123-129 (2013). 4. "Multifocal Breast Cancer in Young Women with Prolonged Contact Between Their Breasts and Their Cellular Phones." West, Kapoor, et al. Case Reports in Medicine (2013). 5. "Epidemiological Evidence for an Association Between Use of Wireless Phones and Tumor Diseases." Hardell, Carlberg, et al. PathoPhysiology 16(2-3):113-122 (2009). C6. "Study on Potential Effects of "902 MHz GSM-type Wireless Communication Signals" on DMBA-Induced Mammary Tumours in Sprague-Dawley Rats." Hruby, Neubauer, et al. Mutation Research 649(1-2):34-44 (2008). VI. Effects On DNA 1. "Microwaves from Mobile Phones Inhibit 53BP1 Focus Formation in Human Stem Cells More Strongly Than in Differentiated Cells: Possible Mechanistic Link to Cancer Risk." Markova, Malmgren, et al. Environmental Health Perspectives 118(3):394-399 (2010). 2. "Radiofrequency Radiation and Gene/Protein Expression: A Review." McNamee and Chauhan. Radiation Research 172(3):265-287 (2009). 3. "Evaluation of HSP70 Expression and DNA Damage in Cells of a Human Trophoblast Cell Line Exposed to 1.8GHz Amplitude-Modulated Radiofrequency Fields." Valbonesi, Franzellotto, et al. Radiation Research 169(3):270-279 (2008). 4. "Gene and Protein Expression Following Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields from Mobile Phones." Vanderstraeten and Verschaeve. Environmental Health ( Perspectives 116(9):1131-5 (2008). 5. "Nonthermal Effects of RadioFrequency-Field Exposure on Calcium Dynamics in Stem Cell- derived Neuronal Cells: Elucidation of Calcium Pathways." Rao, Titushkin, et al. Radiation Research 169(3):319-329 (2008). 6. "Gene Expression Changes in the Skin of Rats Induced by Prolonged 35 GHz Millimeter-Wave Exposure." Millenbaugh, Roth, et al. Radiation Research 169(3):288-300 (2008). 7. "DNA Damage in Molt-4 T-lymphoblastoid Cells Exposed to Cellular Telephone Radiofrequency Fields in Vitro." Philips, Ivaschuk, et al. Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics 45(1):103-110 (1998). VII. Neurological/Cognitive Effects 1. "Are Rises in Electro-Magnetic Field in The Human Environment, Interacting with Multiple Environmental Pollutions, The Tripping Point for Increases in Neurological Deaths in the Western World?" Pritchard, C., Silk, A. and Hansen, L. Medical Hypotheses 127: 76-83 (2019). 2. "Effect of 1800-2100 MHz Electromagnetic Radiation on Learning-Memory and Hippocampal Morphology in Swiss Albino Mice." Kishore, G., Venkatashu, K., and Sridevi, N. Jorunal of Clincal and Diagnostic Research 12(2): 14-17 (2019). 3. "Monitoring of BALB/C Strain Mice Health, Investigation of Behavior, Hematological Parameters Under the Effect of an Electromagnetic Field." Zymantiene, J., et al. Medycyna Weterynarjna 75(03): 158-163 (2019). C4. "2.45 GHz Microwave Radiation Impairs Learning, Memory, and Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity in The Rat." Karimi, N., et al. Toxicology and Industrial Health 34(12): 873-883 (2018). 5. "Mobile Phone Distance From Head and Temperature Changes of Radio Frequency Waves on Brain Tissue." Forouharmajd, F., Ebrahimi, H. and Pourabdian, S. International Journal of Preventative Medicine (2018). 6. "A Prospective Cohort Study of Adolescents' Memory Performance and Individual Brain Dose of Microwave Radiation from Wireless Communication." Foerster, M., et al. Environmental Health Perspectives 126(7) (2018). 7. "Electromagnetic Radiation 2450 MHz Exposure Causes Cognition Deficit with Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Activation of Intrinsic Pathway of Apoptosis in Rats." Gupta, S.K., Mesharam, M.K., and Krishnamurthy, S. Journal of Biosciences 43(2) 263-276 (2018). 8. "The Effect of Wi-Fi Electromagnetic Waves in Unimodal and Multimodal Object Recognition Tasks in Male Rats." Hassanshahi, A., et al. Neurological Sciences 38(6):1069-1076 (2017). 9. "Effects of Short and Long Term Electromagnetic Fields Exposure on the Human Hippocampus." Deniz, O.G., et al. Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure 5(4):191-197 (2017). ( 10. "Effects of Long Term Exposure of 900-1800 MHz Radiation Emitted from 2G Mobile Phone on Mice Hippocampus - A Histomorphometric Study." Mugunthan, Shanmugasamy, et al. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research 10(8):AF01-6 (2016). 11. "Effect of Mobile Phone Radiation on Pentylenetetrazole-Induced Seizure Threshold in Mice." Kouchaki, Motaghedifard, et al. Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences 19(7):800-3 (2016). 12. "Effects of 3 Hz and 60Hz Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields on Anxiety-Like Behaviors, Memory Retention of Passive Avoidance and ElectroPhysiological Properties of Male Rats." Rostami, Shahani, et al. J Lasers Medical Science 7(2):120-125 (2016). 13. "Short-Term Memory in Mice is Affected by Mobile Phone Radiation." Ntzouni, Stamatakis, et al. PathoPhysiology 18(3):193-199 (2011). 14. "Use of Mobile Phones and Changes in Cognitive Function in Adolescents." Thomas, Benke, et al. Occupational Environmental Medicine 67(12):861-866 (2010). 15. "Increased Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability in Mammalian Brain 7 Days After Exposure to the Radiation from a GSM-900 Mobile Phone." Nittby, Brun, et al. PathoPhysiology 16(2-3):103-112 (2009). 16. "Effects of GSM 1800 MHz on Dendritic Development of Cultured Hippocampal Neurons." Ning, Xu, et al. Acta Pharmacol Sin28(12):1873-1880 (2007). 17. "Neurological Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation." Lai, Henry. Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems 1:27-80 (1994). VIII. Effects On Male Fertility 1. "Radiations and Male Fertility." Kesari, K., Agarwal, A. and Henkel, R. Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 16(118)-(2018). 2. "The Effect of 2.45 GHz Non-Ionizing Radiation on the Structure and Ultrastructure of The Testis in Juvenile Rats." Histology and Histopathology (2018). 3. "Modulatory Effect of 900 MHz Radiation on Biochemical and Reproductive Parameters in Rats." Narayana, SN.,. et al. Bratislava Medical Journal 119(9):581- 587 (2018). 4. "Aloe Arborescens Juice Prevents EMF-Induced Oxidative Stress and Thus Protects from Pathophysiology in the Male Reproductive System In Vitro." Solek, P., Majchrowics, L., and Koziorowski, M. Environmental Research 166:141-149 (2018). 5. "Radiofrequency Radiation (900 MHz)-Induced DNA Damage and Cell Cycle Arrest in Testicular Germ Cells in Swiss Albino.Mice." Pandey, N., et al. Toxicology and Industrial Health 33(4) 373-384 (2017). 6. "The Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation on Sperm Function." Houston, Nixon, et al. Reproduction (2016) 7. "Male Fertility and its Association with Occupational and Mobile Phone Tower Hazards: An Analytical Study." Al-Quzwini, Al-Taee, et al. Middle East Fertility Society Journal (2016). 8. "Sperm DNA Damage - The Effect of Stress and Everyday Life Factors." Radwan, M, et al. International Journal of Impotence Research 28, 148-154 (2016). 9. "Electromagnetic Radiation at 900 MHz Induces Sperm Apoptosis through bcl-2, bax and caspase-3 Signaling Pathways in Rats."Liu, Si, et al. Journal of Reproductive Health 12:65 (2015). 10. "Habits of Cell Phone usage and Sperm Quality - Does It Warrant Attention?" Zilverlight, Wiener-Megnazi, et al. Reproductive BioMedicine Online 31(3):421-426 (2015). 11. "Extremely Low frequency Magnetic Fields Induce Spermatogenic Germ Cell Apoptosis: Possible Mechanism." Lee, Park, et al. BioMed Research International (2014). c 12. "In Vitro Effect of Cell Phone Radiation on Motility, DNA Fragmentation and Clusterin Gene Expression in Human Sperm." Zalata, El-Samanoudy, et al. International Journal of Fertility and Sterility 9(1):129-136 (2014). 13. "Effect of Electromagnetic Field Exposure on the Reproductive System." Gye and Park. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine 39(1):1-19 (2012). 14. "Effects of the Exposure of Mobile Phones on Male Reproduction: A Review of the Literature." Vignera, Condorelli, et al. Journal of Andrology 33(3):350-356 (2012). 15. "Use of Laptop Computers Connected to Internet Through Wi-Fi Decreases Human Sperm Motility and Increases Sperm DNA Fragmentation." Avendano, C., et al. Fertility and Sterility 97(1):39045 (2012). 16. "Exposure to Magnetic fields and the Risk of Poor Sperm Quality." Li, Yan, et al. Journal of Reproductive Toxicology 29(1):86-92 (2010). 17. "Mobile Phone Radiation Induces Reactive Oxygen Species Production and DNA Damage in Human Spermatozoa In Vitro." Luliis, Newey, et al. PLoS ONE 4(7) (2009). 18. "Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation (Rf-EMR) from GSM Mobile Phones Induces Oxidative Stress and Reduces Sperm Motility in Rats." Mailankot, Kunnath, et al. Clinical Science 64(6):561-5 (2009).. 19. "Cell Phones: Modern Man's Nemesis?" Makker, Varghese, et al. Reproductive BioMedicine Online 18(1):148-157 (2008). 20. "Indicative SAR Levels Due to an Active Mobile Phone in a Front Trouser Pocket in Proximity to Common Metallic Objects."Whittow, Panagamuwa, et al. Propagation Conference 149-152 (2008). 21. "Cell Phones and Male Infertility: Dissecting the Relationship." Deepinder, Makker, et al. Reproductive BioMedicine Online 15(3):266-270 (2007). 22. "Evaluation of the Effect of Using Mobile Phones on Male Fertility." Wdowiak, Wiktor, et al. Annals of Agricultural and Medicine 14(1):169- 172 (2007). 23. "Effect of Cell Phone Usage on Semen Analysis in Men Attending Infertility Clinic: An Observational Study." Agarwal, Deepinder, et al. American Society for Reproductive Medicine 89(1):124-8 (2008). IX. Electromagnetic Sensitivity 1. "Becoming Electro-Hypersensitive: A Replication Study." Dieudonne, M. Bioelectromagnetic 40: 188-200 (2019). 2 "Functional Brain MRI in Patients Complaining of Electrohypersensitivity After Long Term Exposure to Electromagnectic Fields." Heuser, G. & Heuser, S. Reviews on Environmental Health 32(3):291-299 (2016). 3. "Hot Nano Spots" as an Interpretation of So-Called Non-Thermal Biological Mobile Phone Effects." Pfutzner, Helmut. Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications 8(3):62-69 (2016). 4. "Analysis of the Genotoxic Effects Of Mobile Phone Radiation Using Buccal Micronucleus Assay: A Comparative Evaluation."Banerjee, Singh, et al. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research 10 (3):ZC82-ZC85 (2016). C5. "Tinnitus and Cell Phones: The Role of Electromagnetic Radiofrequency Radiation." Medeiros and Sanchez. Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology 82(1):97-104 (2016). 6. "Microwave Frequency Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) Produce Widespread Neuropsychiatric Effects Including Depression." Pall, Martin L. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy (2015). 7. "Subjective Symptoms Related to GSM Radiation from Mobile Phone Base Stations: a Cross- Sectional Study." Gomez-Perretta, Navarro, et al. BMJ Open 3.12 (2013). 8. "Green Communication- A Stipulation to Reduce Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity from Cellular Phones." Kumar, Khan, et al. Procedia Technology 4:682-686 (2012).. 9. "Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Fact or Fiction?" Genius and Lipp. Science of the Total Environment 414(1):103-112 (2012). 10. "Radiofrequency (RF) Sickness in the Lilienfeld Study: An Effect of Modulated Microwaves?" Liakouris, A. Archives of Environmental Health 236- 238 (2010). 1,1. "Neurobehavioral Effects Among Inhabitants Around Mobile Phone Base Stations." Abdel-Rassoul, El-Fateh, et al. NeuroToxicology28(2):434-440 (2007). ( 12. "Electrohypersensitivity.: Sate-Of-The-Art of A Functional Impairment." Johansson, 0. Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine 25(4): 245-258 (2006). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17178584 13. "Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Biological Effects of Dirty Electricity With Emphasis on Diabetes and Multiple Sclerosis." Havas, M. Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine 25(4): 259-268 (2006). 14. "Establishing the Health Risks of Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields Requires Multidisciplinary Research." Hietanen, Maila. Scandinavian Journal of Work, the Environment, and Health 32(3):169-170 (2006). 15. "Hypersensitivity of Human Subjects to Environmental Electric and Magnetic Field Exposure: A Review of the Literature."Levallois, • Patrick. Environmental Health Perspectives 110(4):613-8 (2002). 16. "Electric Hypersensitivity and Neurophysical Effects of Cellular Phones - Facts or Needless Anxiety?" Harma, Mikko Ilmari. Scandinavian Journal of Work, the Environment and Health 26(2):85-86 (2000). X. Effects On Implanted Medical Devices 1. "Ad Hoc Electromagnetic Compatibility Testing of Non-Implantable Medical Devices and Radio Frequency Identification."Seidman and Guag. Biomedical Engineering OnLine 12:71 (2013). 2. "Electromagnetic Interference of Pacemakers." Lakshmanadoss, Chinnachamy, et al. Interchopen 229-2 52 (2011). 3. "Interference Between Mobile Phones and Pacemakers: A Look Inside." Censi, Calcagnini, et al. Annali dell`Istituto superiore di sanity 43(3):254-259 (2007). 4. "Electromagnetic Interference on Pacemakers." Erdogan, Okan. Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal 2(3):74-78 (2002). 5. "Electromagnetic Interference in Patients with Implanted Cardioverter- Defibrillators and Implantable Loop Recorders." Sousa, Klein, et al. Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal 2(3):79-84 (2002). 6. "Radiofrequency Interference with Medical Devices. A Technical Information Statement. IEEE Committee on Man and Radiation, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 17(3):111-4 (1998). 7. "Cellular Telephones and Pacemakers: Urgent Call or Wrong Number?" Ellenbogen and Wood. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 27(6):1478-9 (1996). XI. 5G Effects 1. Systematic Derivation of Safety Limits for Time-Varying 5G Radiofrequency Exposure Based on Analytical Models and Thermal Dose. Neufeld, E., and Kuster, N. Health Physics Society (2018). ( 2. "Towards 5G Communication Systems: Are There Health Implications?" Ciaula, AD. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 367-375 (2018). 3. "5G Wireless Telecommunications Expansion: Public Health and Environmental Implications." Russell, C.L. Environmental Research 165:484-495 (2018). 4. "The Human Skin As A Sub-THz Receiver - Does 5G Pose a Danger To It or Not?" Betzalel, N., Ishai, P.B., and Feldman, Y. Environmental Research 163:208-216 (2018). 5. "The Modeling of the Absorbance of Sun-THz Radiation by Human Skin." Betzalel, N., Feldman, Y., and Ishai, P.B. IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology 7(5):521-528 (2017). 6. "Human Exposure to RF Fields in 5G Downlink." Nasim, I. and Kim, S. Georgia Southern University (2017). 7. The Human body and Millimeter-Wave Wireless Communication Systems: Interactions and Implications. Wu, T., Rappaport, T., and Collins, C. IEEE International Conference on Communications (2015). 8. State of Knowledge on Biological Effects at 40-60 GHz. Drean, Y., et al. Comptes Rendus Physique (2013). 9. Human Skin as Arrays of Helical Antennas in Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Range. Feldman, Y., et al. The American Physical Society (2008). XII. Miscellaneous Articles 1. "Computational Simulations of The Penetration of 0.30 THz Radiation into the Human Ear." Vilaagosh, Z., et al. Biomedical Optics Express 10(3) (2019). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6420278/ 2. "Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure and Risk Perception: A Pilot Experimental Study." Zeleke, B., et al. Environmental Research 170: 493-499 (2019). 3. "Commentary on The Utility of The National Toxicology Program Study on Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation Data for Assessing Human Health Risks Despite Unfounded Criticisms Aimed at Minimizing the Findings of Adverse Health Effects." Melnick, R. Environmental Research 168:1-6 (2019). 4. Pathological Findings Observed in the Kidneys of Postnatal Male Rats Exposed to the 2100 MHz Electromagnetic Field. Bedir, R., et al. Archives of Medical Research (2019). 5. "Genotoxic and Carcinogenic Effects of Non-Ionizing Electromagnetic Fields." Kocaman, A., et al. Environmental Research 163:71-79 (2018). 6. "Non-Ionizing EMF Hazard in the 21st Century." Koh, W.J., and Moochhala, S.M. IEEE (2018). 7. "Thermal and Non-Thermal Health Effects of Low Intensity Non-Ionizing Radiation: An International Perspective." Belpomme, D., et al. Environmental Pollution 242(A):643-658 (2018). 8. "Comparison of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure Levels in Different Everyday Microenvironments in an International Context." Sagar, S, et al. Environmental International 114:297-306 (2018). 9. Wi-Fi is an Important Threat to Human Health. Pall, M. Environmental Research 405-416 (2018). 10. "Mobile-Phone Radiation-Induced Perturbation of gene-Expression Profiling, Redox Equilibrium and Sporadic-Apoptosis Control in the Ovary of Drosophila Melanogaster." Manta, A., et al. FLY 11(2): 75-95 (2017). 11. "World Health Organization, Radiofrequency Radiation and Health - A Hard Nut to Crack (Review)." Hardell, L. International Journal of Oncology 51:405-413 (2017). 12. "Radiation from Wireless Technology Elevates Blood Glucose and Body Temperature in 40-Year-Old Type 1 Diabetic Male." Kleiber, C. Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine 36:3 259-264 (2017). 13. "Cardiovascular Disease: Time to Identify Emerging Environmental Risk Factors." Bandara, P. &Weller, S. European Journal of Preventative Cardiology (2017). 14. "Effects of Exposure to 2100MHz GSM-like Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Field on Auditory System of Rats." Celiker, Ozgur, et al. Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology (2017). ., 15. "An Investigation of the Effect of Extremely Low Frequency Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields on Human Electrocardiograms (ECGs)." Fang, Mahmoud, r et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 13(11) (2016). 16. "Evaluation of the Protective Role of Vitamin C on the Metabolic and Enxymatic Activities of the Liver in the Male Rats After Exposure to 2.45 GHz of Wi-Fi Routers." Shekoohi-Shooli, F., et al. Journal of Biomedical Physics and Engineering 6(3):157-164 (2016). 17. "Exposure of ELF-EMF and RF-EMF Increase the Rate of Glucose Transport and TCA Cycle in Budding Yeast." Lin, Yan, et al. Frontiers in • Microbiology (2016). 18. "Awareness Campaign Against Cell Phone Radiation Hazard: Case Study Oman." Osmen and Saar. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 205(9):381- 385 (2015). 19. "Electromagnetic Energy Radiated from Mobile Phone Alters Electrocardiographic Records of Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease." Alhusseiny, Al-Nimer, et al. Annals of Medical and Health Science Research 2(2):146-151. (2012). 20. "Effects of Radiofrequency Radiation on Human Ferritin: An in vitro Enzymun Assay." Fattahi-asl, Baradaran-Ghahfarokhi, et al. Journal of Medical Signals and Sensors 2(4):235-240 (2012). 21. "Apoptosis is Induced by Radiofrequency Fields through the Caspase- Independent Mitochondrial Pathway in Cortical Neurons."Joubert, ( Bourthoumieu, et al. Radiation Research 169(1):38-45 (2008). 22. "Source of Funding and Results of Studies of Health Effects of Mobile Phone Use: Systematic Review of Experimental Studies."Huss, Egger, et al. Environmental Health Perspectives 115(1):1-4 (2007). 23. "Epidemiology of Health Effects of Radiofrequency Exposure." Ahlbom, Green, et al. Environmental Health Perspectives 112(17):1741-1753 (2004). 24. "The Possible Role of Radiofrequency Radiation in the Development of Uveal Melanoma" Stang, Anastassiou, et al. Journal of Epidemiology 12(1):7-12 (2001). 25. "Biological Effects of Amplitude-Modulated Radiofrequency Radiation." Juutilainen and Seze. Scandinavian Journal of Work, the Environment and Health 24(2):245-254 (1998). I am looking for better ham radio comm that will aid in a disaster. It makes me very concerned for the many wonderful people of North Kohala. Your sincerely proud constituent on Hawai'i Island. We have Kahuna that walked and taught here. We have political leaders that are wise, CApra/Lee' F.. Sept 19, 2012 by MARCO TORRES 1 Neurosurgeon Shows How Low Levels of Radiation Such As i Fir Smart Meters And Cell Phones Cause The Blood Brain Barrier To Leak Neurosurgeon and researcher Dr. Leif Salford has conducted many studies on radio frequency radiation and its effects on the brain. Dr. Salford called the potential implications of some of his research "terrifying." Some of the most concerning conclusions result from the fact that the weakest exposure levels to wireless radiation caused the greatest effect in causing the blood brain barrier to leak Since he began his line of research in 1988, Dr. Leif Salford and his colleagues at Lund University Hospital in Sweden has exposed over 1,600 experimental animals to low-level radiation. Their results were consistent and worrisome: radiation, including that from cell phones, caused the blood-brain barrier—the brain's first line of defense against infections and toxic chemicals--to leak. Researchers in 13 other laboratories in 6 different countries had reported the same effect, but no one had proven whether it would lead to any damage in the long term. In a study published June 2003 in Environmental Health Perspectives, Salford's team repeated the experiment on 32 additional animals, but this time waited eight weeks before sacrificing them and examining their brains. In those animals that had been exposed to a cell phone, up to two percent of the neurons in all areas of the brain were shrunken and degenerated. Salford, chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at his institution, called the potential implications "terrifying." "We have good reason to believe," he said, "that what happens in rats' brains also happens in humans." Referring to today's teenagers, the study's authors wrote that "a whole generation of users may suffer negative effects, perhaps as early as in middle age." An argument is sometimes made (not necessarily accurately) to those who express concern about radiation from "smart" meters, Wi Fi, etc, that the radiation emitted from these devices is at such a low level that the public needn't worry about it. However Dr. Salford's studies showed opening up of the blood brain barrier from very low levels of radiation. In fact, Cindy Sage and Dr. David Carpenter write in a 2008 paper (Public Health Implications of Wireless Technologies) it was "the weakest exposure level [which] showed the greatest effect in opening up the BBB [blood brain barrier]. C- 16. A.A. Bright, Jr., The Electric Lamp hzdusuy, Macmillan, increase in deaths beginning the end of October 1997, and New York, 1949,p. 107. a 20% rise in deaths in the beginning of January, and last- 17. Ibid., p. 113. ing another nine weeks. Portland, Oregon, which received 118. Ibid.,Appendix B. Sprint PCS service in late December 1996, experienced a 19. Ibid., p. 111. 3-month rise in mortality of about 16% above normal 20. March 23, 1889,p. 176. beginning the first week of January 1997; nearby Seattle, 21. April 26, 1889,p. 618. Washington,which did not receive PCS service at that time, 22. R.B. DuBoff, Electric Power in American Manufacturing' showed no such increase in deaths. 1889-1958, Arno Press,NY, 1979,p. 35. 23. C.H. Hughes, M.D. "The Epidemic Inflammatory Neurosis: The number of excess deaths in New York,Chicago, and Or,Neurotic Influenza,"•JAMA, Feb.27, 1892,pp.245-249. Los Angeles alone amounted to over 3,000. In Texas,the buildout of commercial service by Primeco PCS began in mid-November 1996, and a two-month 1P CS Kills Ten Thousand increase in mortality set in as follows: Fort Worth beginning of January Preliminary statistics, obtained from the Centers for Houston mid-January Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, indicate that radio Austin mid-January waves from new digital towers are killing large numbers of San Antonio end of January people.Weekly mortality statistics were obtained for major U.S. cities for the years 1996, 1997 and 1998.They show Dallas, which is the only city that had pre-existing PCS that many large cities experienced a 10-25% increase in service, is. also the only city in Texas that showed no increase in deaths at that time.Seattle and San Francisco, mortality, lasting two to three months, upon the launching of personal communications services (PCS) networks in which got PCS service during 1997, also did not show a those cities. spike in deaths.Nor did Denver, which got PCS at the end An impression of suddenly increased mortality in a city of March 1997,or Honolulu,which received it in late 1996. was visually apparent from scanning the CDC tables. Its These cities are all distinguished by having had high levels magnitude was then roughly calculated by comparing the of radiofrequency radiation prior to PCS service. Both total number of deaths, summed over the relevant time Seattle and Denver have high radiation levels from military period, with the total number of deaths in a similar time installations. Seattle also had digital internet service from period the previous or subsequent year. Confirmation of lamppost antennas for some time previously, as did San these results will require data from a sufficient number of Francisco. (Seattle, San Francisco, Eugene, and Washing- years to obtain a true seasonal norm; however, even these ton are the only U.S. cities that had such service prior to preliminary data are consistent enough to make the results 1997.) Honolulu has been known for years as having the probable. highest levels of radiofrequency radiation of any city in the For example, San Diego had an increase in total weekly United States. deaths of 15% above normal beginning late November If these results withstand scrutiny, they are strong evi- 1996, following the beginning of PCS service by Pacific dence that radio waves,and especially digital signals,cause Bell, and lasting about two months. These were non-flu substantial illness and large numbers of deaths when a pop- deaths (but see the article about the flu in this issue), as a ulation is first exposed to them.They are also evidence that similar increase in mortality did not occur in nearby Los most people adjust to the new electrical environment after two to three months,and will tolerate subsequent increases Angeles at that time. Los Angeles received its first PCS service in July 1997, and experienced an increase in mor- in radiation. This is small comfort, however, to those tality of 27% above-normal beginning about August 1 and people whom this radiation has killed, and to those of us lasting,again,about two months.Nearby San Diego did not who never adjust, who are called electrically sensitive. have an increased death rate at that time. New York City Those who do adjust should also not be too complacent. experienced a 10% increase in mortality beginning Iate The descriptions of radio wave sickness in the Eastern November 1996 following the onset of PCS service there European literature frequently refer to an initial sympto- by Omnipoint Communications, and lasting approximately matic period that is followed by about five years of appar- eleven weeks. Chicago experienced an 11% increase in ent adjustment. Those five years are usually followed by mortality beginning Christmas 1996,following the onset of much more serious disease.Those epidemiological studies PCS service by Primeco Personal Communications Corp., were all done in the 1980s or earlier, at a time when expo- 3nd lasting about ten weeks. Boston received limited sure was confined to certain occupations and nobody was "Ambassador Service" by Sprint PCS in the fall of 1997, exposed for more than eight hours a day. 24-hour-a-day and full service January 1, 1998.Boston experienced a 5% exposure to pulsed radio waves is a phenomenon which is 6 No Place To Hide • little more than a year and a half old in the U.S.. and rules on Broadband PCS specify permitted power levels for slightly longer in some other parts of the world. towers up to a mile and a quarter tall! (Section 24.232 of The reason digital signals are more injurious than con- the Code of Federal Regulations.) tinuous waves is not known for certain, but probably has to do with the higher frequencies used;the staccato nature of the signal; the increased bandwidth; the increased number And other consequences of channels; the necessity for direct line of sight; and mod- ulation at biologically important frequencies. Increased Radioactivity No Place To FlyA study published by the Track Analysis Research Group in 1996 reports on the attraction of radon daughter in 1973 J. Bigu Del Blanco and co-workers proved that nuclei to everyday sources of power frequency electric fields.*Its principal author,Professor Denis L.Henshaw, is bird feathers make tine receiving aerials for microwaves (1973 IEEE International Electromagnetic Compatibility head of the Human Radiation Effects Group at the • Symposium Record. New Yotk, June 20-22, 1973, pp. 54- University of Bristol in England. 59).This explains the commonly-observed phenomenon of These researchers measured up to an 18-fold increase in birds evacuating the area around every cellular tower. The deposition of radon daughter nuclei along the wires of future of bird life on this planet is imperiled by the prolif- domestic appliances, provided only that the appliances oration of these. towers. The following article is reprinted were plugged in(not turned on)."Wires carrying mains fre- from page 2 of The Kingfisher, March 1998: quency potential attracted radon daughter nuclei in a manner visually similar to the attraction of iron filings to a Communications Towers— magnet," they wrote. They theorized that the presence of A Bird Protection Issue electric fields indoors or outdoors(such as near powerlines) by Andy Mason would enhance the diffusion of radon daughter aerosols and therefore increase the radioactivity in indoor or outdoor air. There has been a good deal of discussion in the press in Because water molecules instantaneously polarize in the ( recent months over cellular telephone companies and other direction of an electric field, water-containing aerosols communications firms attempting to site new towers to always move up the field gradient toward the source of the expand and improve coverage. field. It does not matter whether the field is direct or alter- Most of the concerns expressed by localities have been nating: the molecules flip instantaneously with the alterna- over the esthetics of the towers—generally placed on tion of the current and still move up the field gradient mountain tops or other high and quite visible locations. toward the source.It is therefore likely that the electric field Each company wants its own tower, and lots of them, to component of microwave radiation would do the same gain an edge over the competition. thing. However, there is evidence that another issue needs to be In this regard,Rita Holzer reports that she has been mon- raised with these structures—bird mortality. It is well doc- itoring radioactivity for many years, and that in many umented that towers are a threat to birds, particularly places in California, Arizona and Illinois, the background migrants. This January, a massive kill estimated at 5,000- radioactivity increased about 60% in 1997, and that these 10.000 birds. mostly Lapland Longspurs,occurred at a 420 higher readings are steady and do not vary with wind con- ft.tower in Kansas.The birds were evidently disoriented by ditions. fog and strobe lights on the tower.A number were impaled on wheat stubble, indicating that they were so confused *International Journal of Radiation Biology 69(1):25-38. they flew full force into the ground. The construction of towers is increasing rapidly. Since Severer Weather 1989, the number of towers in New York State has doubled by Arthur Firstenberg and is accelerating.Although most are under 500 ft.,a new generation of 1000 ft. and higher towers is anticipated for On page 53 of Microwaving Our Planet I reported that the coming digital television broadcast system.These taller in 1978, power lines and radio towers were already broad- towers pose the greatest danger to birds. casting enough energy into space to interact with the Van Allen radiation belts and cause an increase in the fallout of charged particles over the earth. This was theorized to Digital TV towers may not be the only towers that will enhance cloud formation and increase thunderstorm activ- be so tall. The Federal Communications Commission's ity.' I predicted that the orbiting of huge fleets of mobile July, 1997 7 r . 3 iirtality Statistics (continued) by Arthur Firstenberg CIn the July 1998 issue of No Place to Hide an article analysis.Therefore, the raw data are presented here for all appeared titled "PCS Kills Ten Thousand." In that story, to see.The tables below contain complete mortality statis- preliminary data derived forum Centers for Disease Control tics from the CDC for two paris of cities from July 1996 (CDC) mortality statistics were summarized and given as through March 1998.Although both cities in each pair are evidence that the first introduction of 1900 MHz digital in the same region of the country,it will be seen that high- cellular(PCS)service caused a significant rise in mortality• est mortality did not occur at the same time,or in the same lasting two or more months,in major U.S. cities. year,in the two cities, showing that some factor other than Some have questioned my expertise to do statistical seasonal disease epidemics was at work. NORTI ASTERN U.S. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA New York City Boston Los Angeles San Diego week of deaths variation(%) deaths variation(%a), deaths variation(%n) deaths variation(% July 7, 1996 1244 0% 126 -16% 588 +40% 99 -18% 14 1133 -9 149 0 264 -37 133 -4 21 1152 -7 . 145 -3 340 -19 136 -2 28 1135 -8 166 +11 468 +11 142 +3 Aug. 4 1168 -6 125 -16 317 -25 163 +18 11 1187 -4 125 -16 534 +27 108 -22 18 1118 -10 152 +2 424 +1 127 -8 25 1153 -7 126 -16 516 +22 141 +2 Sept. 1 1139 -8 130 -13 611 +45 142 +3 8 1175 -5 154 +3 369 -12 154 +11 ( 15 1187 -4 144 -4 382 -9 124 -10 22 1236 0 130 -13 U U 135 -2 29 1219 -2 119 -20 327 -22 134 -3 Oct. 6 1213 -2 181 +21 224 -47 131 -5 13 1236 0 143 -4 507 +20 131 -5 20 1202 -3 146 -2 587 +39 125 -9 27 1248 +1 137 -8 431 +2 123 -11 Nov. 3 1334 +8 186 +25 412 _2 Nov 1 156 +13 10 1205 -3 123 -18 183 -57 Pacific 87 -37 17 Nov. 15 1611 +30 145 -3 - 290 -31 Bell 182 +32 24 Omni- 1516 +22 172 +15 453 +8 •service 155 +12 Dec. i point 1587 +28 164 +10 250 -41 began 152 +10 8 service 1250 +8 149 0 191 -55 140 +1 15 began' 1324 +7 134 -10 U U 135 -2 22 1773 +43 165 +11 474 +13 191 +38 29 1391 +12 168 +13 395 -6 182 +32 Jan. 5,1997 1363 +10 152 +2 323 -24 127 -8 12 1435 +16 176 +18 571 +36 248 +80 19 1306 +5 152 +2 475 +13 139 +1 26 1335 +8 136 -9 528 +25 168 +22 Feb. 2 1230 -1 126 -16 296 -30 124 -10 9 1260 +2 140 -6 505 +20 165 +20 16 1246 0 189 +27 394 -6 149 +8 23 1274 +3 165 +11 543 +29 185 +34 Mar. 2 1229 -1 168 +13 591 +40 127 -8 9 1264 +2 170 +14 527 +25 144 +4 16 1187 -4 139 -7 523 +24 135 -2. September, 1999 11 k I 23 1234 0 162 +9 U U 115 -17 30 1212 -2 151 +1 U U 155 +12 Apt 6 1234 0 121 -19 170 -60 136 -2 47- 13 1121 -10 153 +3 271 -36 120 -13 20 1187 -4 149 0 401 -5 135 -2 27 1207 -3 141 -6 560 +33 162 +17 May 4 1172 -5 125 -16 U U 107 -23 11 1126 -9 144 -4 289 -31 129 -7 18 1195 -4 157 +5 475 +13 152 +10 25 1144 -8 121 -19 U U 155 +12 June 1 1207 -3 165 +41 526 +25 136 -2 8 1120 -10 165 +11 U U 138 0 15 1014 -18 141 -6 460 +9 100 -28 22 1263 +2 149 0 579 +37 140 +1 29 1140 -8 146 -2 496 +18 156 +13 July 6 1019 -18 138 -8 Jttly 3 272 -35 113 -18 13 1290 +4 139 7 Pacific 462 +10 137 -1 20 1101 -11 162 +9 Bell 710 +69 127 -8 27 1096 -12 136 -9 service 647 +54 141 +2 Aug. 3 1034 -17 141 -6 began3 617 +46 137 -1 10 1108 -11 135 -10 559 +33 154 +11 17 1021 -18 139 -7 455 +8 89 -36 24 1170 -6 128 -14 707 +68 172 +25 31 1131 -9 150 0 649 +54 122 -12 Sept. 7 1097 -12 93 -38 606 +44 147 +6 14 1145 -8 150 0 472 +12 142 +3 21 1125 -9 113 -24 U U 190 +38 1(1 28 1098 • -11 133 -11 243 -42 116 -16 Oct. 5 _ 1130 -9 137 -8 679 +61 148 +7 12 1220 -2 158 +6 556 +32 120 -13 19 1170 -6 143 -4 441 +5 146 +6 26 1138 -8 158 +6 330 -22 106 -23 Nov. 2 1203 -3 168 +13 239 -43 157 +14 9 1268 +2 Nov. 12 152 +2 U U 89 -36 16 1099 -11 Sprint 177 +19 427 +1 191 +38 23 1266 +2 service 151 +1 U U 163 +18 30 1258 +1 began2 143 -4 U U 154 +11 Dec. 7 1323 +7 177 +19 U U 107 -23 14 1408 +14 169 +13 214 -49 128 -7 21 1305 +5 199 +33 U U 243 +76 28 1554 +25 199 +33 U U 269 +95 Jah. 4, 1998 1368 +10 135 -10 U U 204 +48 1I 1346 +9 197 +32 564 +34 182 +32 18 1344 +8 211 +41 340 -19 170 +23 25 1221 -2 163 +9 U U 184 +33 Feb. 1 1263 +2 180 +21 U U 137 -1 8 1241 0 167 +12 463 +10 173 +25 15 1322 +7 170 +14 603 +43 180 +30 22 1126 -9 152 +2 717 +70 162 +17 Mar. 1 1206 -3 170 . +14 589 +40 145 +5 8 1145 -8 143 -4 U U 26 -81 • 15 1171 -6 155 +4 457 +9 155 +12 22 1147 -7 122 -18 296 -30 166 -16 12 No Place To Hide r erratic before PCS). I consulted several statisticians and 11 .1 I\ was advised that a rigorous analysis would be extremely difficult. However, I devised two crude ways to measure this: (1) All the graphs reversed direction more often after h PCS than before PCS.I counted 40 wks before PCS and 40 weeks after mortality returned to"noreemal" (40 weeks is the maximum span for which data are easily available both I before and after for all cities): before after New York 27 reversals 34 reversals i San Diego 24 reversals 34 reversals 0 ! Boston 27 reversals 30 reversals Los Angeles 24 reversals 28 reversals (2) I calculated the difference between successive �A 1 weeks, and for New York and San Diego this difference is significantly larger after PCS than before. I treated it as a .a -a`o •Y •> .0 •a •A 'u ' , >.'•c •..-rn w. a'A ` > 0 0•A ' • comparison of distances, r, from a regression line through 0 0 .0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ad 0 a 0 00 Ogg nun 4 4 0 0 A A 7 V. S 4 x *0 7 4 of O p, A b 0. S the midpoints of each pair of data. p of 04 • Weekly mortality, San.Diego £r2 after/�r2 before Upon the advice of the Centers for Disease Control, the New York 2.37 (1)=0.004) dates in the above tables have been adjusted for an average San Diego 1.79 (40 weeks) (p=0.03) three-week delay in the filing of death certificates. "U" 1.84(80 weeks) (p=0.02) means data are unavailable for that week. Baselines (0%) Boston 1.11 were arbitrarily chosen as the average of ten months of data Los Angeles 99 preceding cellular service. For each city, the date of first PCS service, by its first PCS provider, is marked on the 1 j table. Cellular service was followed by an average death rate 17%•above baseline over 11 weeks for New York City; 15.5% above baseline over 16 weeks for Boston; 30% I ii above baseline over 15 weeks for Los Angeles; and 14.5% . above baseline over 17 weeks for San Diego. These data Il I / i I A li have not been seasonally adjusted,but they do give a rough - 1 indication of the increase in deaths which directly followed the startup of PCS wireless telephone service in each of j these four cities. ' These numbers differ somewhat from the early estimates reported last July. E w The data for these four cities have been graphed, as i ! 1a shown. i A I I\ 1 The graphs suggest also another kinds of change besides 12 an immediate rise in the death rate.Particularly in the San 1 1 i4 Diego and New York graphs, the curve is smoother before a ' '4 '> '0 '; 'c a a 0 . 0 0 0 >0 n d .13 a b 4 0 0 A A 70. S 4 S h 4 4 at 0 0A 70. 04 the introduction of PCS, and more jagged afterwards (the a • curves for Boston and Los Angeles were already very Weekly mortality, Los Angeles F"Underdog Debuts New Cellular Services",New York Newsday,Nov. 15, 1996 C•"Firms Hope Consumers Answer Call of Wireless",Boston Globe,Nov 12, 1997 3"On Friday,New Digital Phones Get a Dial Tone",San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct.29, 1996 4"Pac Bell's Digital Service to Arrive in Southern California",Los Angeles Times, July 2, 1997 September, 1999 13 te 1 Again, 40-week periods were used, except that an addi- tional calculation was made using 80 weeks of data after r- PCS for San Diego.The differences are statistically signif- icant at the 0.02 probability level for both New York and San Diego. i! Intervals containing unavailable data were excluded I from the above measures. 6 One possible interpretation of these changes is that the general health of the population became more erratic due to 1 the.radiation.The effect may thus be two-fold: 1 (1) Especially vulnerable or sensitive individuals may ! I f i die immediately; 1 . (2) The immune system of the general population 4/4Ibecomes on constant alert less vulnerable to minor � k Ar 1\ stresses but unable to deal with major ones, and therefore I subject to larger swings in health and mortality.This is con- Ia �! sistent with what is being reported from around the world. I I Other cities whose mortality rose for two or more ill iH months after receiving digital cellular services include 12 Charlotte (BellSouth PCS, July 19, 1996; Chicago, y 4 0 2 .A ° S Pi Z. •; 4 H g 4 A ; . x Milwaukee,Austin, San Antonio, Fort Worth,Houston(all a a Primeco, Nov. 12, 1996) Atlanta (BellSouth, Nov. 12, Weekly mortality, New York City 1996); Tulsa (Western Wireless, Nov. 16, 1996); Fresno, Spokane (both Sprint, Dec. 16, 1996); Portland, (Sprint, Dec.18,1996);Sacramento(Pacific Bell,March 12, 1997); Philadelphia (Sprint, April 3, 1997); and Detroit (Sprint, October 15, 1997). The two factors that correlated most closely with mor- . ` - tality were (1) the magnitude and (2) the quickness of the change. The largest markets (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago) and the largest companies (Sprint, Primeco) showed the strongest correlations. Pacific Bell also put a big effort into its home city, San Diego. 900 MHz digital I I A \ service does not require the density of towers that 1900 1 MHz service requires,and was not usually accompanied by 1 1 a rise in morality but here, again,BellSouth was so suc- 1 ! cessful in its home city,Atlanta,that within four months of beginning its digital(900 MHz)marketing campaign, 53% i of Atlantans had signed up for cellular service—triple the 17,13 national average and almost triple the previogs rate for ` / I Atlanta (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 24, 1997, 11 l t 12 "Long Commutes Good for Cellular Business"). 1 lA a *If you live in another country and can obtain weekly •m•4. •s. •'> °0 'G ‘a „ , z . a' .'„ ' ' u' G`A `w ' mortality statistics and dates of onset of 1900 MHz service, ,1 ..1 o o 4 0 it I 1 < s 8 ' d wI S m 8 P. a°. 5 or of original GSM service, please contact the Cellular Phone Taskforce. We would like to expand this study Weekly mortality, Boston worldwide. C- . 14 No Place To Hide t WARNING BY ACUPUNCTURISTS Leon I. Hammer, M.D., a graduate of Cornell University Medical College, f 'r practiced psychiatry and psychoanalysis until 1971,when he began to study 0, Chinese medicine. He studied in England with J.D.Van Buren during Ev 1971-1974, and traveled to study in China in 1981. Dr. Hammer apprenticed with the internationally renowned Chinese master Dr. John HF .a Shen in New York City over a period of 27 years. Now 87, Dr. Hammer has practiced Chinese medicine since 1973, and he founded the Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine in Gainesville,Florida in 2001. He is the author of Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies,a study of the relationship of Chinese medicine and Western Psychology,Chinese Pulse Diagnosis,A Contemporary Approach, and The Patient-Practitioner Relationship in Acupuncture. In 2009, he published an article in The American Acupuncturist"to alert the Chinese medical profession and practitioners" to signs of radiation exposure from wireless technology that are becoming increasingly widespread—signs that Chinese medicine practitioners previously found only in people who,for example,had undergone radiation treatment for cancer. Dr.Hammer's article is titled "The Pulse,The Electronic Age and Radiation: Early Detection." Reference:Arthur Firstenberg website: https://cellphonetaskforce.org EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES The late Dr. Roger Santini, a scientist at the National Institute of Applied 11z Sciences of Lyon,was the author of many papers on non-ionizing radiation and warned about the dangers of wireless technology until his F death on June 14,2006 from pancreatic cancer.He wrote several books on , ` , f the subject, including"Telephones cellulaires : Danger ?" (Cellular telephones : Danger ?) (1998) et"Votre GSM,Votre sante: on vous ment" (Your GSM, Your health : you're being lied to") (2004). He was a co-founder of the Centre de Recherche et d'Information Independantes sur les Rayonnements ElectroMagnetic (Center of Research and Independent Information on Electromagnetic Radiation) (www.criirem.org),and the founder of Next-Up, a non- governmental organization concerned with wireless and power-frequency radiation. Santini conducted the first epidemiological study of the health of people living close to cell towers. Many others have since confirmed his results. 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(Influence of proximity to cell towers on cancer incidence).2004 Germany. https://pdfs.semanti cscholar.org/1.8a 1/8747bc54f7e5926fece67839ef065cc 1.6f4f.pdf? ga=2.69'1'19744.1277024435.1599181600-326144292.1599181600 Ronny Wolf and Danny Wolf.Increased Incidence of Cancer Near a Cell-Phone Transmitter Station.2004(Israel) https://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20050207 israel.pdf Neil Cherry.Childhood cancer incidence in the vicinity of the Sutro Tower,San Francisco.2000 (US) https://bemri.org/publications/masts/256-ch i ldhood-cancer-i nci dense-i n-the-vicinity-of-the- sutro-tow er/fi 1 e.html Download a PDF of this article here. Adilza C.Dode et al.Mortality by neoplasia and cellular telephone base stations in the Belo Horizonte municipality,Minas Gerais state,Brazil.2011 (Brazil) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pi i/S0048969711005754 Reference:Arthur Firstenberg website: https://cellphonetaskforce.org/epidemiological-studies/ L 1 CELL PHONES: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS by Arthur Firstenberg How much radiation does a cell phone emit, compared to what exists in nature? If Neil Armstrong had brought a cell phone to the moon in 1969, it would have appeared from earth to be the brightest object in the universe in the microwave spectrum. In the daytime, the sun would have been brighter,but at night,the cell phone would have outshone every star. ,Y . • • - • ..:\ • .' 7. :r0-•'\ ' +,r try ` • ®.. » m i T 4Vt:1 44 Oro 4,, [ ' � Ait'o • ? pyst ., k+ • l A �i. >6 xa,.. i- "L '✓`,..._iT _ r ;.s:; 'Op _ r. '. 'i'y .' j �� There is a reason cell phones are outlawed in Green Bank, West Virginia: even a single cell phone, even from miles away, would blind the radio astronomers there and make it impossible for them to see the stars. Astronomers measure radio waves in units called janskys. A typical star shines at 10 to 100 janskys. The Sun shines at about 500,000 janskys. When you hold a cell phone against your head,you are pumping energy at the rate of about 100,000,000,000,000,000 janskys into your brain.' ' 1 jansky= 10-26 mW/m2/Hz. The values given are for cell phone frequencies. How does that compare to radiation from a cell tower? Suppose there is a 2,000-watt cell tower two blocks from your house. The part of your brain next to a cell phone is absorbing up to one hundred thousand times as much radiation from the phone as it is from the tower.2 Are the FCC's exposure limits the same for cell phones and cell towers? No. Cell phones are exempt from the limits imposed on cell towers. The FCC measures exposure in milliwatts per square centimeter. Depending on frequency,the FCC's limit for whole body exposure to radiation from distant sources is about one milliwatt per square centimeter (1 mW/cm2). The limit for partial body exposure to a cell phone is approximately 20 mW/cm2 (for the brain),which assumes the phone is held at least one and a half centimeters away from your head. It is 50 mW/cm2 (for the hands,wrists and ears). If you hold the phone flush against your head, like most people do, or tightly between your head and your shoulder,the exposure to the brain can approach 50 mW/cm2 also.3 Who set the exposure limits? A radar scientist named Herman Schwan who was brought to the United States from Germany after World War II as part of Project Paperclip. He made some assumptions about the rate at which the human body is capable of getting rid of heat, and on that basis he estimated that C the body could safely absorb an amount of radiation equal to 100 mW/cm2. His assumptions were soon proven wrong, since experimental animals died within minutes when exposed to that much radiation. So over the years,the safe level was reduced first to 10 mW/cm2 and later to the current limit of 1 mW/cm2. Why is the brain exempt from those limits? Because those limits would make cell phones impractical. And because new assumptions were made about how much heat the brain could safely absorb, and the rate at which the body could dissipate that heat. It was decided that the brain could be safely heated by up to 1° C (1.8° F). Have these assumptions proven correct? No. A 1° C rise in temperature is usually considered a fever. And although the brain as a whole is heated less than 1° C by a cell phone,the absorption is not uniform. DNA, for example, resonantly absorbs microwave radiation. In experiments done at the Food and Drug Administra- 2 Exposure decreases with the square of the distance. 3 Cell phones are regulated by their Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), which is given in watts per kilogram(W/kg). The SAR limit for cell phones in the U.S. is 1.6 W/kg for the brain and 4 W/kg for the hands,wrists and ears. The far-field equivalents are 20 mW/cm2 for the brain and 50 mW/cm2 for the hands,wrists and ears. • tion during the 1980s,DNA absorbed 400 times as much radiation as expected.4 Research done at the Max Planck Institute in Germany in 2006 found that brain synapses may be resonantly heated by up to 100° C while the brain as a whole is heated by only 1° C.5 I don't get a headache from my cell phone. Can it be that bad? Because brain tissue has no pain receptors,we don't feel the injury. Even a headache doesn't tell you what's happening inside your head.Neurosurgen Leif Salford and his colleagues in Sweden found that a single two-hour exposure to a cell phone permanently destroys up to two percent of a rat's brain cells.6 Superficially the rats are fine,but two percent of their brain is gone. The experiments gave similar results even when the exposure level was reduced a hundredfold. And in experiments on the blood-brain barrier,they reduced the exposure level ten thousandfold and found that damage to the blood-brain barrier was worse when the exposure level was reduced.? That means that holding the phone away from your head does not protect you. It means that if you use a Bluetooth headset, which emits only 2.5 milliwatts,you are doing more damage to yourself than if you hold the phone to your head. The blood-brain barrier keeps bacteria, virusus, and toxic chemicals out of your brain and maintains the brain at constant pressure. Too much intracranial pressure can lead to a stroke. How fast does the damage to the blood-brain barrier happen? Leakage of the blood-brain barrier is detectable within two minutes of exposure and probably begins within seconds. What do the stroke statistics tell us? The incidence of stroke overall is steady or declining but it is rising in adults younger than 50,8 and shockingly so in very young adults. A Danish study published in 2016 examined 4 Mays Swicord, Chain-Length Dependent Microwave Absorption of DNA,Biopolymers 22: 2513-2516 (1983). 5 C. Holtze et al.,The Microwave Absorption of Emulsions Containing Aqueous Micro- and Nanodroplets: A Means to Optimize Microwave Heating,Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 302: 651-657 (2006);Max Rauner, "Hot Conversations,"Die Zeit,Aug. 21, 2006 (in German). 6 L. G. Salford et al.,Nerve Cell Damage in Mammalian Brain after Exposure to Microwaves from GSM Mobile Phones, Environmental Health Perspectives 111(7): 881-883 (2003). 7 B. R. R. Persson et al.,Blood-brain Barrier Permeability in Rats Exposed to Electromagnetic Fields Used in Wireless Communications, Wireless Networks 3: 455-461 (1997). 8 Y. Bejot et al.,Trends in the Incidence of Ischaemic Stroke in Young Adults Between 1985 and 2011: the Dijon Stroke Registry,Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 85: 509- C— 513 (2014); J. Putaala et al.,Analysis of 1008 consecutive Patients Aged 15 5o 49 with First- Ever Ischemic Stroke: the Helsinki Young Stroke Registry,Stroke 40: 1195-1203 (2009); 3 .. the rate of strokes in people aged 15 to 30. The annual number of strokes in that age group in Denmark rose 50 percent between 1994 and 2012, and the annual number of transient ischemic attacks (mini-strokes) in that age group tripled.9 I'm confused. Which is safer, low power or high power? Neither. The higher the power,the more heat. The lower the power,the more leakage of the blood-brain barrier. The higher the power,the more your metabolism is disturbed.10 The lower the power,the more calcium leaks out of your cells." Microwave radiation injures the body in many different ways. It depends on which effect you are looking at. What about the near field plume? Isn't a cell phone safer when it is held more than six inches away from your head? There is no such thing as a near field"plume." The near field is simply the region near a source of radiation where the electric field is separate from the magnetic field and the strength of either cannot be exactly predicted. There is no sharp boundary between near field and far field and the fundamental properties of the radiation do not change. What about those shielding products that you stick on one side of your phone to block the radiation in the direction of your brain? The people who designed those products forgot that your arm, being an electrical conductor, is also an antenna. When you hold a cell phone in your hand,your whole arm, and not just the cell phone,becomes a radio transmitter that sends and receives the cell phone signal and conducts it into the rest of your body. Putting reflective material on one side of the phone doesn't do very much. To the extent that it does anything, it makes the phone work harder and actually increases the amount of radiation instead of decreasing it. The designers of those products forgot to test them on phones that someone was actually holding. A. Rosengren et al., Twenty-four-year Trends in the Incidence of Ischemic Stroke in Sweden from 1987 to 2010,Stroke 44: 2388-2393 (2013). 9 M. Tibaek et al., Increasing Incidence of Hospitalization for Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack in Young Adults: A Registry-Based Study,Journal of the American Heart Association 5: e003158 (2016). 1°A. Firstenberg, The Invisible Rainbow:A History of Electricity and Life (AGB Press,2017), chapters 10-14; A. Sanders et al., The Differential Effects of 200, 591, and 2,450 MHz Radiation on Rat Brain Energy Metabolism,"Bioelectromagnetics 5: 419-33 (1984); M. Blank and R. Goodman, Electromagnetic Fields Stress Living Cells,Pathophysiology 16(2-3): 71-78 (2009). 11 Calcium efflux from brain cells occurs at specific power"windows."Reducing the power 3000-fold can quadruple the effect. S. Dutta et al., Microwave Radiation-Induced Calcium Ion Flux from Human Neuroblastoma Cells: Dependence on Depth of Amplitude Modulation and L Exposure Time. In Biological Effects of Electropollution, S. Dutta and R. Millis, eds. (Information Ventures, 1986),pp. 63-69. 4 Is a cell phone safe if I use a wired headset? In 2000,testing by Consumers' Association in the UK showed that using a wired headset actually tripled the radiation to the brain. Instead of protecting the user,the wire conducts the radiation from the cell phone directly into the user's ear and brain.12 In addition,phones operate at greater power and emit more radiation when held below the level of the head. And if you operate one while it is in your pocket,it is irradiating your hip, colon, and reproductive organs while the headset is irradiating your brain. • Is it safe to keep a cell phone in my pocket when I'm not using it? That's what most people do. And total hip replacements have skyrocketed. Between 2000 and 2010 the number of annual hip replacements in the U.S.more than doubled, and the rate of hip replacements among people aged 45-54 more than tripled.13 Rates of colon cancer among Americans aged 20-54,which had been declining for decades, began to rise in 1997 when widespread cell phone use began. The rise has been steepest and began earliest(1995) in people aged 20-29: the rate of colon cancer in young men and women aged 20-29 doubled between 1995 and 2013.14 Rates of prostate cancer have been rising worldwide since 1997.15 The number of cases of prostate cancer among Swedish men aged 50-59 was stable for decades until 1996 and rose ninefold between 1997 and 2004.16 The incidence of metastatic prostate cancer among American men under 55 increased 62%between 2004 and 2013, and nearly doubled for men aged 55-69 during the same period.17 Several studies have found that men who keep their cell phones on standby in their pocket or on their belt lower their sperm count by up to 30 percent.18 A study conducted from 12 "Special Report: The Ring of Truth." Which?Magazine,April 11-17, 2000. 13 M. L. Wolford et al., Hospitalization for Total Hip Replacement Among Inpatients Aged 45 and Over: United States, 2000-2010,NCHS Data Brief No. 186, Februrary 2015. 14 R. L. Siegel et al., Colorectal Cancer Incidence Patterns in the United States, 1974-2013, Journal of the National Cancer Institute 109(8): djw322 (2017). 15 M. C. S. Wong et al., Global Incidence and Mortality for Prostate Cancer: Analysis of Temporal Patterns and Trends in 36 countries, European Urology 70: 862-874(2016). 16 O. Hallberg and O. Johansson,Apparent Decreases in Swedish Public Health Indicators after 1997—Are They Due to Improved Diagnostics or to Environmental Factors?Pathophysiology 16(1): 43-46 (2009). 17 A. B. Weiner et al., Increasing Incidence of Metastatic Prostate Cancer in the United States (2004-2013),Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases 19: 395-397 (2016). 181. Fejes et al., Relationship between Regular Cell Phone Use and Human Semen Quality, Abstracts of the 20th Annual Meeting of the ESHRE, Berlin, Germany, 27-30 June 2004,p. i57; A. Zilberlicht et cl., Habits of Cell Phone Usage and Sperm Quality—Does It Warrant Attention?,Reproductive BioMedicine Online 31: 421-426 (2015). 5 2003 to 2013 found that young men now had lower sperm counts than their elders, and that people born between 1990 and 1995 had on average 40 percent lower sperm counts than men born earlier.19 Almost every study that has been conducted has found a direct relationship between cell phone use and sperm count,motility, and/or morphology.20 Is it safe for women to keep a cell phone in their bra? Women in their twenties and thirties who keep their cell phones in their bras are getting a distinctive type of breast cancer directly underneath where they keep their phones 21 How far does the radiation from my cell phone travel? The signal goes out forever. It does not just travel to the nearest cell tower, and it does not travel in only that direction. It goes on forever, in all directions, as long as there are no hills or objects in the way. It pollutes your entire neighborhood and it travels upward to the sun and stars. It just keeps on going. Those few people who owned an analog cell phone back in 1996 may remember how far apart cell towers used to be. As long as there were no hills in the way,you used to be able to get a signal from 90 miles away. The only reason cell towers have to be so close together today is because a single tower can only serve a limited number of people. The more users,the more towers have to be built. Also the more bandwidth, the more towers have to be built: using cell phones as computers and not just phones means there have to be a lot more towers. That, and the fact that digital signals are more subject to interference than analog signals. But the radiation still goes on forever. Isn't it my choice? The radiation is out there anyway, so why shouldn't I use it? I need my cell phone. There are so many cell towers everywhere today that it is easy to assume you are not making anything worse when you make a cell phone call—that all you are doing is tapping into what's already out there, like putting one more automobile onto an interstate highway that has already been built. 19 G. M. Centola et al., Decline in Sperm Count and Motility in Young Adult Men from 2003 to 2013: Observations from a U.S. Sperm Bank,Andrology 4: 270-276 (2016). 20 La Vignera et al., Effects of the Exposure to Mobile Phones on Male Reproduction: A Review of the Literature,Journal of Andrology, 33(3): 350-56 (2012)'; J. A. Adams et al., Effect of Mobile Telephones on Sperm Quality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis,Environment International 70: 106-12 (2014); K. Liu et al., Association between Mobile Phone Use and Semen Quality: a Systemic Review and Meta-analysis,Andrology 2: 491-501 (2016); B. J. Houston et al., The Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation on Sperm Function, Reproduction 152: R263-R276 (2016); 21 J. G. West et al., Multifocal Breast Cancer in Young Wemen with Prolonged Contact between Their Breasts and Their Cellular Phones, Case Reports in Medicine, article ID 354682 (2013). 6 That is an illusion. When everyone's phone is turned off,the cell towers are operating at minimal power on one setup channel that has to broadcast at all times in case someone wants to make a call. Things are a little more complex today because more frequencies are in use but that is the basic situation. What happens when you turn on your phone and make a call is that the nearest cell tower has to turn on a voice channel just for you, which also broadcasts in every direction and also pollutes the whole neighborhood and goes on forever out into the universe. If you have a smart phone and use the Internet the cell tower also opens up a data channel just for you. And in order for you to reach the person you are calling,the cell tower nearest to him or her also has to open up a channel just for that person and send radiation in all directions and that person has to answer their phone and send more radiation in all directions. And on weekdays during the evening commute, and all day Saturday and Sunday,when everyone in the world is on their phone, every cell tower has hundreds of channels operating on hundreds of frequencies and emits much more radiation than late at night when everyone is off their phone. When your phone is off, multiple cell towers are quieter. When you are using your phone,you are polluting your own and at least one other person's neighborhood. I only keep my phone for emergencies when I travel. That has minimal impact, right? The other thing that happens when you make a call is you are demanding service. When you turn on your phone in a remote location where cell phone service is poor or non-existent, your provider registers that as a request for service. If it gets enough requests for service in that location, it will build a cell tower there. Even in a city,when more people make calls at the same time than there is capacity for in the nearest tower, or when everyone starts using more bandwidth or gets more apps than the tower can handle, calls start to be dropped, each dropped call is registered as a request for service, and soon your city has applications for even more cell towers to handle the increased traffic. I got sick from a smart phone. My flip phone is much safer, right? Smart phones didn't come among us until 2004. But the first wave of digital,voice-only cell towers in the United States in 1996 killed at least ten thousand people in a matter of months,22 and millions more from diabetes,heart disease, and cancer in the succeeding years 23 How did the Cellular Phone Task Force get its name? Pelda Levey and I named our organization the Cellular Phone Task Force in 1996 with several purposes in mind, foremost among them being that the threat to our world that we were facing was and is the cell phone. WiFi came among us in 2001, smart phones in 2004, smart 22 A. Firstenberg, "PCS Kills Ten Thousand,"No Place To Hide 1(4): 6-7 (1998);A. Firstenberg, "Mortality Statistics (continued),"No Place To Hide 2(2): 11-14 (1999). ,( 23 A. Firstenberg, The Invisible Rainbow:A History of Electricity and Life (AGB Press, 2017), chapters 11-13. The Invisible Rainbow is available for purchase at www.cellphonetaskforce.org. 7 meters in 2007, 5G in 2017, each building on a foundation that has become so big and so omnipresent that most people, even most of the injured,take it for granted. Like the proverbial blind men touching the different extremities of the elephant,we have become oblivious of the beast itself. The problem with smart phones isn't that they are smart, but that they are phones. Even smart meters are only an arm of the wireless torso, the central creature to which it is attached and to which our civilization and culture have become so dependent, in the short span of two decades,that we can no longer imagine that it is not only possible but necessary to live without it. Only then will we stop 5G. Only then will we keep our landlines. Only then will we save our planet. 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EN ES D 'etender CHILDREN S HEALTH DEFENSE NEWS&VIEWS The Defender COVID Health Conditions Toxic Exposures Censorship/Surveilli April 5, 2023 > Big Tech > Legal > News LEGAL CHD Petitions FCC to 'Quit Stalling' on Court Order to Address Harmful Effects of Wireless Radiation Children's Health Defense on Tuesday petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to "quit stalling"and comply with a court-ordered mandate to explain how the agency determined ( its current guidelines adequately protect humans and the environment against harmful effects of exposure to radiofrequency(RF) radiation. by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. AP RI L 5, 2023 • • C ,.46:4:' -$.:,,f," 'e A A: .b � " .4 ..#fit''°, ': t I ,` ; ,r `_om \Ja7 s k , .i£; £tro � ^a•NS . Y • ti -44Te, qtW,?: ;AVM. v. /ice r NS , ➢ ;• �}�; yx ,W'� ` k. t SFr'' • . lIZA.z'+, e;I` , „y='1!► N tip "" 4r gYhDa �!t � Y`u5 I iF r' ..-. m,m4-e„, 14160 PAGEVIEWS 35 Children's Health Defense (CHD) on Tuesday petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)to "quit stalling" and comply with a court-ordered mandate to explain ( how the agency determined its current guidelines adequately protect humans and the environment against harmful effects of exposure to radiofrequency(RF) radiation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued the mandate on Aug. 13, 2021, when it ruled the FCC failed to consider the non-cancer evidence of adverse health effects related to wireless technology when the agency determined its 1996 health and safety guidelines regarding wireless-based technologies adequately protected public health. The ruling stemmed from CHD's historic win in a case challenging the FCC's decision not to review the 1996 guidelines. The FCC has taken no action to comply with the court's ruling, prompting CHD to threaten further legal action. Scott McCollough, lead attorney for CHD's historic case and author of the petition, said CHD submitted a petition — rather than a request— because a petition "is something to which they must respond," according to administrative law. CHD's petition said: "The Commission cannot just sit on this matter any longer...Any continued non-action will violate the judgment and mandate and expose the Commission to further judicial review and, ultimately, a mandamus order requiring action." CIn its 2021 decision, the court said the agency must also address the environmental impacts of RF radiation and the"impact of RF radiation on children, the health implications of long-term exposure to RF radiation, the ubiquity of wireless devices and other technological developments that have occurred since the Commission last updated its guidelines." McCollough, a telecommunication and administrative law attorney, told The Defender: "The FCC needs to receive all the evidence and science regarding the biological effects of RF radiation and deal with it in good faith. "The agency must recognize that its current guidelines need to be changed to reflect reality." 'FCC cannot responsibly ignore this science any longer' CHD's petition is the latest legal move in an ongoing battle stemming from the FCC's 2019 ( decision to not update its 1996 RF exposure guideline and to terminate a legal inquiry process of examining the scientific evidence of adverse biological effects of RF radiation. The FCC maintained that no further inquiry into scientific evidence was necessary and that its 1996 RF exposure — or emission — guidelines were sufficient for protecting the public against harm. 'The best available scientific evidence, including our consideration of the opinions provided by expert U.S. federal health agencies, supports maintaining the existing RF exposure limits,"the agency stated in November 2019. In response, the CHD and other petitioners, including the Environmental Health Trust, sued the FCC and filed 11,000 pages of evidence of harm from 5G and wireless technology, which they alleged the FCC had ignored in rendering its 2019 decision. The U.S. Court of Appeals in 2021 sided with CHD, calling the FCC's 2019 decision "arbitrary and capricious" because it failed to consider the non-cancer evidence regarding adverse health effects of wireless technology. The court noted that the FCC failed to respond to approximately 200 comments on the record by people who experienced illness or injury from electromagnetic radiation „ „ n/to/nn G.1O T r sickness. Moreover, the court said the FCC"completely failed to acknowledge, let alone respond to, comments concerning the impact of RF radiation on the environment...The record contains substantive evidence of potential environmental harms." It has now been three years and more than three months since the FCC's 2019 decision, CHD's petition pointed out. "During that period even more scientific evidence has been published and it provides even more proof of a harmful biological response to RF exposures at and under the FCC's emissions guidelines,"the petition said. The Environmental Health Trust"arduously" uploaded all recent scientific studies to the FCC case's docket, "so the FCC is fully aware of these developments,"the petition said. "The Commission cannot responsibly ignore this science any longer," it added. FCC has to 'find a better balance' According to the petition, the FCC must address the environmental impact of RF radiation not only to comply with the 2021 court order— but also to comply with a looming deadline issued by the Council on Environmental Equality(CEQ), the federal agency responsible for developing the implementation procedures of the National Environmental Protection Act (N EPA). In 2020, CEQ issued a set of revisions to its Protection of the Environment rules that require the FCC to consult with CEQ on the environmental impact of RF radiation and provide an opportunity for public review and comment by Sept. 14, 2023, the petition said. "The FCC's emission rules [about RF radiation] have always been purely about human exposure," McCollough said. 'They do not address limits for exposure to birds, bees, trees, etc.," He added: "But the CEQ rules —which they have to update to match — make plain that NEPA procedures are all about [the] impact to the entire human environment, not just humans." "So in order to comply with the CEQ mandate, they [the FCC officials] have to update their emissions rules to reflect [the] impact on the human and non-human aspects of n/Ioinn e.no T the human environment...and the science is telling us RF is harming not only people but also wildlife, trees and especially pollinators." McCollough acknowledged that it will be a big task for the FCC to address the scientific evidence of the biological impacts of RF radiation on humans and the environment. The FCC's job is to efficiently oversee the radio spectrum as a public resource to deliver communications — but it also has a human safety mandate, he said. The issue is, "How are they going to balance those two priorities?" NEPA also requires the FCC to assess environmental impact, so that imperative constrains them as well, McCollough noted. "We're not asking them [FCC officials] to turn off all the radios," McCollough said. 'We're asking them to find that balance where you can still deliver reasonable communication service — but not make people sick and not destroy the environment, not kill all the pollinators." "They've got to find a better balance," he added. " ;` -�s Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. 7, . { Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., is a reporter and researcher for The Defender based in Fairfield, Iv Iowa. • REPUBLISH THIS ARTICLE t . SUGGEST A CORRECTION ®° SHARE ARTICLE D Get The Defender delivered to your inbox. No paywall. No ads.just the uncensored news. EN ES the le tender® er CHILDREW'S HEALTzH DEFENSE NEWS&VIEWS The Defender COVID Health Conditions Toxic Exposures Censorship/Surveillk April 16, 2021 > Big Tech > Legal > News LEGAL Family Sues Telecom Giants, Alleging They Hid Risks of Cell Phone Radiation That Caused Man's Brain Cancer Children's Health Defense Chairman Robert F. KennedyJr. is part of the legal team representing 4( the family of Frank Aaron Walker, who died at age 49 from an aggressive brain cancer linked to cell phone radiation. by Dafna Tachover, Esq APRIL 16, 2021 I a w �?x .fir.. rs „4"f# : '' , 4 I 1` ! "4� '-'. N � �y� � *AC. �"�t�n... 6 ^� �'�-�a'�.. t YnY F �S`�� � �y:. ti 'r'NIN '4' ' ' it si4 �7 .mar t -� r,�Y 1 . 7, { 1�r; I - �s 4 F R*j. p . �,�b.-yam]'' '1, ' k; �`. kb a i, :: q,,_ikxuy b,P ,}_. `;.,.. �C `' <;' " t, i mac- x 4. ,ter.. ' ' L n '':c z' '",M;,xA.a1. t' ; z. x '` y� ,14 :yitt,41A. ,,. *wt. , ,- • ..'... . ' -,... ^�. .ate FS 0 • µ �»•� j ya CF 1 k' 15 The family of a pastor from Louisiana who died from glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, is suing Motorola, AT&T and other telecommunications companies. The lawsuit, filed April 8, alleges the cancer was caused by exposure to cell phones' radiation and that the telecommunications industry has engaged for decades in fraudulent practices to hide the health risks of cell phone radiation. The lawsuit was brought by the widow and two sons of Frank Aaron Walker, a pastor, teacher and musician from Louisiana. Mr. Walker, who used cell phones for 25 years, was diagnosed with glioblastoma brain cancer in January 2019. Walker died Dec. 31, 2020, at the age of 49, after a two-year battle with this cancer. The case "April Marie Walker, et al., v. Motorola Mobility, LLC, et al."was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The family is represented by Lundy, Lundy, Soileau & South, LLP, one of the leading personal injury law firms in the country, and by Robert F. KennedyJr., chairman and chief legal counsel for Children's Health Defense (CHD). The defendants in the case include Motorola Mobility, LLC; Motorola Solutions, Inc., Motorola, Inc.; AT&T Mobility LLC; ZTE Corp.; Cricket Communications LLC; HMD Global Oy; the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association; and the Cellular C._ Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA). The lawsuit alleges that the telecom industry"downplayed, understated and/or did not r.P. fl/tOVIA G.14i state the health hazards and risks associated with cell phones." It also accuses the defendants of fraud, unfair trade practices, design defects, inadequate warning and Cmisrepresentation, among other state and federal causes of action. CTIA played leading role in defrauding public The plaintiffs claim that the wireless lobby associations, the CTIA and the Telecom Industry Association "have been at the forefront of the cell phone industry's bad faith and deceptive public relations program to reassure the public of the absence of risk of harm from cell phone use." According to the lawsuit, a central figure in the furtherance of this activity is Tom Wheeler, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman who was also the CEO of the CTIA. In 1993, when Wheeler worked for CTIA, he announced a $25 million research program to prove that cell phones are safe. The lawsuit alleges that in 1999, when the head of the research program disclosed that the studies showed evidence of health concerns, CTIA started a campaign to discredit the work of the man they chose to spearhead their research and they hid the results from the public. --.s . _;;.. COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU GET TICKETS SEPTEMBER 2024 Evidence shows science and scientists were suppressed The lawsuit provides evidence of numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies that show cell phones can cause cancer, including U.S. government studies. The Plaintiffs allege that the telecom industry has misrepresented the scientific evidence, suppressed credible evidence and concerns and has conspired to conceal or alter results of studies. The lawsuit claims that"researchers who discovered adverse effects associated with cell phone use, lost their funding, were fired, found their reputation damaged, and had their work denigrated."The Complaint provides evidence of such industry actions stretching over decades. „,,„,„., r.t i r For example, in 1994, Henry Lai, Ph.D., presented to the CTIA, Motorola and other telecommunication companies the findings of a series of experiments he conducted cshowing DNA damage from radiation similar to that emitted by cell phones. The lawsuit claims instead of disclosing the findings to the public, the defendants conspired to "war game" Lai and his studies' results, attempted to prevent their publication and hired a public relations firm to discredit the findings. According to the lawsuit, the defendants then funded other researchers in an effort to disprove Lai's findings. However, when the defendants' own research confirmed Lai's findings,the defendants refused to publish the research. For example, when Jerry L. Phillips Ph.D., wanted to publish his study(which essentially replicated Lai's studies and reached the same conclusions), Motorola, which funded the study, pressured him not to publish and threatened to withdraw funding. When Phillips "refused to allow Motorola to 'spin' his research, Motorola cut Phillips'funding and threatened to discredit him in the scientific community." Patent applications show industry knew of potential harms r The lawsuit claims not only were the defendants aware of the mounting studies demonstrating adverse health effects caused by cell phones, they were also aware of solutions that could reduce the risk of harms. To support their claims, the plaintiffs provided a list of patents for cell phone safety devices obtained by the defendants. Even though these patents could have reduced the risk of sickness and death,the Defendants didn't incorporate these safety features into their cell phones. While in public communications the defendants have asserted that there is no evidence of harm, and that the radiation emitted by cell phones is not biologically active and therefore cell phones are safe, the patent applications reveal evidence of the defendants' knowledge of the potential harms. One of the examples provided by the plaintiffs is a patent received by Nokia in 1998 for a shielding layer between the antenna and the user to reduce the irradiation of the cell phone user. The patent application reveals that Nokia was aware of potential harms of cell phones. Nokia's application states that the cell phone's antenna is located a few centimeters from the brain, the hearing organs, and the organ of equilibrium and that"it has been suggested that modulated RF radiation induces changes in the electrical status ... of nerve cells. A continuous localized exposure to radio frequency irradiation has been suggested to weaken cmyelin sheath of cells and to eventually lead to an impairment of hearing capability,vertigo, etc. It has been suggested that radio frequency irradiation may stimulate extra growth among supportive cells in the nerve system, which in the worst case it has been suggested could [lead] to a development of malignant tumor, e.g., glioma ..." Subscribe to The Defender - It's Free! IFirst Name;. J Last Name, IEmail.. SIGN UP Not the first lawsuit alleging cell phones cause brain tumors There are more than 70 cell phone brain tumor cases in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia (Civil Division). However, using numerous delaying tactics, the defendants in these cases —which include most cell phone manufacturers and service providers —were able to keep the cases in the courts for 20 years. The first of these cases, known as the Murray case, was filed in 2001. In 2012, for the purpose of conducting an evidentiary hearing, 12 additional cases were consolidated with the Murray case (Murray et al. v. Motorola et al.; 2001 CA 008479 B). This evidentiary hearing, also known as a "Daubert Hearing," is scheduled for July 2021. The hearing will determine which of the plaintiffs' experts qualify to testify in trial. The court will decide whether the experts' opinions are sufficiently based on scientifically reliable evidence. Until a decision is made in the evidentiary hearing for Murray et al, all the other cases are on hold. "Justice delayed is justice denied,"said Hunter W. Lundy, lead counsel in the Walker case, whose firm also represents some of the plaintiffs who are part of the Murray et al. litigation. 11/10P14 C.14 I "The telecommunication industry has done all they could to prevent a 12- person jury from hearing the evidence on cell phone harms and how the industry manipulated the science to the detriment of consumers," Lundy said, explaining why his firm decided to file a new case, this time in a federal court. Lundy hopes the Walker case will move forward separately from the Murray cases, as it was filed in a federal court and therefore is not bound by the Murray cases proceeding. It is important to note that a series of court decisions held that section 704 of the 1996 Telecommunication Act preempts state tort laws allowing lawsuits for damages for personal injury from cell phones, cell towers and other personal devices. In Murray et al, the court held that only those who started to use cell phones prior to 1996 could bring personal injury lawsuits. Defendants ask court to disallow expert's testimony The most recent development in the Murray cases took place in March when the plaintiffs filed a 176-page expert opinion by Dr. Christopher Portier, who was director of the National Center for Environment Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prior to his appointment at the CDC, Portier was associate director of the National Institute for Health and Environmental Science and associate director of the National Toxicology Program (NTP). Portier was also a member of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monograph Working Group that classified radio-frequency(RF) radiation, including from cell phones, as a 2B "possible carcinogen." IARC is the World Health Organization's agency responsible for the classification of carcinogens. Portier's report concluded: "In my opinion, RF exposure probably causes gliomas and neuromas and, given the human and experimental evidence, I assert that, to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty, the probability that RF exposure causes gliomas and neuromas is high." As expected, the defense lawyers have asked the court not to allow Portier to be an expert witness in this case, claiming only evidence in existence in 2013 should be allowed. Government-funded studies link cell phone radiation to cancer, DNA damage The telecommunications industry and defendants in all the cases have good reasons to try and prevent Portier's expert opinion and post-2013 evidence from being admitted in the Murray cases. _r 1rl (1/10/l1A C.14 i According to the Walker lawsuit, since IARC's 2011 decision to classify RF radiation as a 2B possible carcinogen, more than 1,000 studies have been published showing extensive charms from this radiation, including studies that establish causal mechanisms of harm, DNA damage and carcinogenic effects. Especially important to the brain tumor cases is the publication in 2018 and 2019 of the results of the.U.S. government $30 Million NTP study which found "clear evidence"that cell phones cause cancer and DNA damage. The NTP is the expert agency on toxic agents. The Walker lawsuit quotes Dr. Ron Melnick, who led the design of the NTP study, who stated that the NTP results "should put to rest the old argument that RF radiation cannot cause DNA damage." The results of the NTP study were replicated in another study by the renowned Ramazzini Institute. The results of these two large-scale studies are especially important because when IARC in 2011 classified cell phone radiation as a 2B possible carcinogen, the agency explained that while there is epidemiological evidence that cell phones increase cancer risk, especially of brain tumors, more animal studies were needed to determine if the agency should assign a higher classification. The NTP study and the Ramazzini Institute study provide the missing link for a classification of a "human carcinogen" (Group 1) or at least a "potential carcinogen" (Group 2A) classification. Indeed, a paper published by IARC in 2019 stated that as a result of"new bioassay and mechanistic evidence," re-evaluation of the classification of RF emissions is warranted. The revaluation was assigned as a "high priority" and IARC said the reevaluation should be completed no later than by 2024. Favorable decision would protect children's health The court in the Murray cases will have to decide whether to allow Portier's expert testimony and post-2013 evidence, including the NTP study. However, the new Walker case will be able to present this evidence which is already part of the lawsuit. Commenting on the Walker lawsuit, Kennedy said: "For decades, the telecommunication industry has been using legal blackmail, media -r � (1/lO/'lA G.14 T control and its financial power to corrupt legislators, capture regulators and deceive the public regarding cell phones and wireless technology safety. Telecom has aggressively put dangerous and deadly cell phones in the hands of unsuspecting adults and innocent children. "Their efforts have resulted in widespread sickness and death."The courts are the final institution of our democracy free from the corrupt influence of the Telecom industry. We will prove evidence that will finally bring these outlaw companies to justice." The plaintiffs in the Walker case are asking for punitive damages, alleging the defendants acted with "oppression,fraud and malice." Children's Health Defense in 2020 sued the FCC claiming that the health guidelines adopted by the FCC in 1996, which deny harms from cell phones and wireless technology. are obsolete and that the FCC decision not to review these guidelines is not evidence-based and is an abuse of discretion. The petitioners in this case filed 11,000 pages of evidence showing profound scientific and human evidence of harm. The case is pending a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. "We hope that following a favorable decision in both these cases, our government agencies will adopt biologically and scientifically based health guidelines and force the wireless industry to develop and promote safer technologies and finally better protect the health of our children," Kennedy said. If you developed a brain tumor and suspect that cell phone may have caused it, please contact the law firm of Lundy, Lundy, Soileau & South, LLP. Dafna Tachover, Esq Dafna Tachover is an attorney in both New York and Israel, has an MBA and is the founder of We Are The Evidence, an advocacy organization for the protection of the rights of the many people who have been injured by wireless technology radiation. REPUBLISH THIS ARTICLE. t �0-- SUGGEST A CORRECTION / ^'^ nnn1ne vier C MICROWAVES, 2011 Summary of a Problem The routine irradiation of human beings at close range, continuously from cradle to grave, began with the sale of the first personal computers in 1977. A disease known as "screen dermatitis, previously confined to newspaper employees and other early computer users, broke out among the general population in that year. Asthma rates, which had been falling for decades, began to rise in that year. A few years later the rate of strokes in young people began to noticeably increase. The milestones of irradiation since then are illustrated by the following chart. Dates are for the U.S., and are approximate. 1977 personal computers 1992 personal +broadband computers 1996 personal +broadband + digital cell computers phones &towers 1998 personal +broadband + digital cell +low orbit computers phones &towers satellites 2001 personal +broadband + digital cell +low orbit + WiFi computers phones &towers satellites 2007 personal +broadband + digital cell +low orbit + WiFi + Smart- computers phones&towers satellites phones 2010 personal +broadband + digital cell + low orbit + WiFi + Smart computers phones &towers satellites phones +"4G"phones + Distributed +"4G" satelllites + Smart Meters + MiFi Antenna Systems +WiMAX This article summarizes what is coming, what is here, and what we have been living with for so long that many have forgotten how very harmful it is. SATELLITES Today. . . On November 15, 2010, from a spaceport in Kazakhstan, a company named Lightsquared launched 4G communications into outer space. Aboard the largest,most powerful commercial communication satellite ever put into orbit are a 72-foot reflector, 500 separate spot beams that can be focused on any region of North America, and 11,900 watts of actual power. This satellite 2 is part of the company's plan to blanket the United States and Canada with ubiquitous 4G wireless broadband service. In addition to 40,000 new cell towers that the company plans to build over the next four years, the satellite will ensure that even areas not reached by one of these towers will still have coverage. "Never again,"writes the company, "will people have to worry about traveling out of the network or losing their connection. For the first time ever, people can enjoy universal network coverage, no matter where they are in the United States." Similar ventures have recently been launched in other parts of the world. "HYLAS 1 SATELLITE BLASTING OFF TODAY, WILL RAIN DOWN BROADBAND FROM ABOVE,"read a headline from the BBC. Owned by Avanti Communications, this satellite will offer high speed broadband connections and high definition TV to 300,000 households in Europe. Avanti has plans for more satellites that will serve Africa and Asia. The following month, on December 26, 2010, Eutelsat Communications launched Ka- Sat. Its 82 spot beams will offer high speed connections to 2,000,000 households in an area ranging from North Africa to southern Scandinavia to parts of the Middle East. . . . and yesterday Common wisdom has it that because satellites are so far away they can't do us any harm that satellites, in fact, are the way to have safe wireless technology. That this is not so was long suspected. By the 1970s scientists knew that radiation broadcast by towers on the ground can be trapped by magnetic field lines high above the earth and then amplified thousands of times. What would happen,they wondered, if radiation originating from satellites orbiting right in the radiation belts above the earth were similarly amplified?How might that affect life below? As far as we know,the Cellular Phone Task Force is the only organization that has actually been monitoring the effects of satellites on health. The first satellite phones went into operation on September 23, 1998 when Motorola's 66 low-orbit"Iridium"satellites began planet-wide service. One week later I surveyed 57 electrically sensitive people in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Australia, Japan, and Sweden. 86%of us had fallen suddenly ill on that exact date,with typical symptoms of electrical illness such as headaches, dizziness, nausea, insomnia, nosebleeds, heart palpitations, asthma attacks, and ringing in the ears. Some of us were so sick we weren't sure we were going to survive. A look at mortality statistics published by the Centers for Disease Control revealed that a 4%to 5%rise in the national death rate occurred during the two weeks following the beginning of satellite phone service. During those same two weeks, thousands of homing pigeons got lost in races throughout much of the eastern two-thirds of the United States. In early December 1998 we again received telephone calls from people far and wide suddenly ill, asking again what had changed in the world. I did some checking. Orbcomm, the second of the low earth orbit (LEO) satellite fleets, had gone commercial on November 30. Its 28 satellites, orbiting 500 miles up,had begun providing wireless data service everywhere on earth. F 3 Then, in late July 1999, and for several weeks thereafter, we again received inquiries from people who were certain the earth felt different again. A third company, Globalstar, had achieved global coverage on July 25 with 32 satellites and its system was undergoing full testing. By March 2000, we reported that the number of low orbit satellites providing digital wireless services to penguins was up to 155. Radio astronomers were screaming that their telescopes were being blinded and they could not see the stars. "It is vital that we take action!" said Dr. Woodruff T. Sullivan III, one of the organizers of a radio astronomy symposium held in Vienna in July 1999. In 2001 a team of Ukrainian scientists warned that communication satellites were dangerous, especially those equipped with spot beams that can provide great amplification. This review of Russian and Ukrainian research by N.K. Kositsky et al. was published by the Cellular Phone Task Force. They wrote: Observed higher resonance frequencies of a living cell coincide with frequencies of radiation of communications satellites. The power densities and duration of irradiation created by these satellites will significantly exceed(by ten or more orders of magnitude—such irradiation is possible over the course of a whole lifetime)—the energetic doses inducing changes in living cells. They warned that we radiation from satellites may cause"changes in cell structures and physiological processes, genetic changes, and alteration of psychophysiological conditions and behavior." But radio pollution of earth and space continued to worsen. Globalstar launched full commercial service on Monday, February 28, 2000. After a year and a half in bankruptcy, Iridium resumed full commercial service on March 30, 2001. Several weeks later a catastrophic wave of spontaneous abortions spread among race horses in at least eight states and several countries. On June 5, 2001, Iridium, which had previously provided only voice transmission, added data services and connections to the Internet. Each of these events was accompanied by worldwide illness, consisting of nausea, flu-like symptoms, and feelings of oppression, lasting for about three weeks. After 2001, satellite phones did not changed much for eight years. The early players— Iridium and Globalstar—went bankrupt, but have continued raining down microwaves year after year, courtesy of government subsidies and military contracts to supply satellite phones to soldiers. At present, companies desiring to place a Smart Phone in the hands of every man, woman and child on earth are enlisting the aid of a new and more powerful generation of satellites. CELL PHONES... CELL TOWERS Today. . . The iPhone-4 went on sale April 20, 2010,the Droid X on July 15,2010. These are the gadgets that are creating the need for new satellites and hundreds of thousands of new cell 4 • towers. It's called 4G wireless, and its speed and capabilities are mesmerizing the world. With "ordinary" cell phones one can only talk and text,and not at the same time; 4G phones can handle any combination of voice, internet access,music, video games,TV reception and video streaming simultaneously. And they can do everything about 3,000 times as fast. Most people don't think about the consequences of owning these "Smart Phones"— namely, that they use up hundreds of times more bandwidth on cell towers. And because most people leave their Smart Phones on all the time,they use up bandwidth even when no one is using the phone. This means that existing networks of cell towers that provide complete coverage for ordinary cell phones are totally inadequate for Smart Phones. Where a company used to need five towers to serve its customers, it now needs a hundred, and it needs to build them as fast as possible because people are buying up the new devices as fast as companies can sell them. They are also causing more illness than older phones used to cause. In fact, Smart Phones are proving so much worse for health and environment that many people have forgotten how lethal even"ordinary" cell phones are. . . . and yesterday In the late 1990s, after cell phones had been in general use for several years, teams of scientists in many countries began to investigate what happens to nearby residents when cell towers are erected in their neighborhoods. The answers were disturbing. In France, Santini et al. reported that the health of over half the exposed population was negatively affected. Unexpectedly the radiation seemed to hit young adults in their twenties and thirties the hardest. Among this age group, 53% of those who lived within 300 meters of a cell tower had disturbed sleep, compared with only 12.5% of those who did not live near a cell tower; 82.4%had fatigue, compared with 25% of those with no tower nearby;57.6%had headaches, compared with 18.2% of those with no tower nearby. Surveys with equally alarming results have been conducted in Poland, Austria, Spain, Germany and Cyprus. Dutch researchers found the same set of symptoms in volunteers exposed under laboratory conditions. In Egypt, after the first cell tower in Menoufiya governorate was built, researchers surveyed residents who lived nearby: 28.2%were suffering from memory loss, 23.5% from sleep disturbance, 23.5%from headaches, 21.7%from depression, 18.8%from dizziness, 9.4% from tremors. The numbers from elsewhere in Menoufiya were 5%, 10%, 10%, 8.8%, 5%, and 0%respectively. The studies referred to above looked at everybody who lived in the vicinity of cell towers. The finding of the same pattern of illness in up to three-quarters of cell phone users, in study after study throughout the world—Sweden,Norway, Egypt,Poland, France, Saudi Arabia, China, Singapore, Turkey—exposed an open secret: everyone is harmed, not just a select few. "Ordinary" cell phones turn out to be one of the most significant burdens on public health in the world today. C 5 In both Europe and North America,the downturn in public health happened quite suddenly during 1996 and 1997. In Sweden, antenna towers for 1800 MHz cell phones were built during the latter part of 1997 throughout the country in the space of a few months. 011e Johansson and Orjan Hallberg analyzed health statistics. They found that the number of Swedish workers on sick leave, which had been declining for a decade, suddenly began to rise in August 1997 and more than doubled during the next five years. During the same period of time, sales of antidepressants doubled. The number of traffic accidents, which had been declining for years, also began to rise. The number of deaths from neurological disease began to rise, and two years later deaths from Alzheimer's disease, which takes time to develop,reversed a declining trend, doubling during the next three years. In the United States, I analyzed weekly mortality data for 122 U.S. cities, obtained from the Centers for Disease Control. In each of 19 of the largest cities, a 10-25 percent increase in mortality occurred, lasting two to three months—as though a disease epidemic had swept through—beginning in the exact week of 1996 or 1997 in which that city's first digital cell phone network began commercial service. It was in response to that emergency that the Cellular Phone Task Force was founded. DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS As indicated above,the use of Smart Phones is causing all the cell phones companies to run out of tower capacity. Where previously a company needed one tower for every thousand cell phone customers, it now needs a tower for every hundred Smart Phone customers. This is creating problems for both telecom companies and zoning boards,because existing zoning laws simply cannot accommodate the need. City staff doesn't have the manpower to process a hundred applications at once, and zoning boards that meet once a month don't have the scheduling time to hold a hundred separate hearings in a year. Yet the citizenry are complaining that their Smart Phones are dropping calls, and there are dead zones. To address this problem, entrepreneurs have invented a new marketing strategy. They link hundreds of cell towers together with fiber optic cable and sell them to a city as a single project, after first convincing the city—often by threatening legal action—to revise its telecommunications ordinance. The new ordinances, which are being adopted all over the country, allow zoning boards to approve hundreds of towers en masse by a single vote after a single public hearing. The operative word is"franchise." Cities are allowing these companies to purchase a telecommunications "franchise," after which they are permitted to install unlimited numbers of towers in the public.rights of way with no further applications, hearings, or notice to the public. Residents are waking up to find that their entire village,town or city has suddenly been plastered with antennas, affixed to the top of existing utility poles standing in the streets in front of their houses, as well as on private easements in residents' front, side, and back yards. The ugly secret is that the antennas on these forests of short poles—which are being sold to uninformed zoning boards as "low power"—are not much less powerful than antennas used to be when they were spaced far apart on tall towers. 6 These entrepreneurs have named their new product"distributed antenna systems."The companies, called NextG Networks,NewPath Networks, and Extenet Systems, are really stand- ins that take the heat for telecom providers that don't want to face the public opposition. And the public has been strongly opposed. Everyone wants their Smart Phones, but no one wants the towers necessary to make them work. So these companies have come into New Orleans, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Atlanta and other cities, lied to the public,held single public hearings, commandeered hundreds of utility poles, leased the new antennas back to AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint, and then departed, leaving sickness and bewilderment in their wake. WIFI... MIFI WiFi, invented in 2001, rapidly became so popular that within a very few years it became difficult to find any hotels or cafes anywhere in the country that had not installed it for the use of their customers. It soon was even difficult to find hospitals that had not installed it for the use of their patients. WiFi typically blankets an area extending for 100 yards in every direction with a cloud of microwave radiation that anyone can tap into with their laptop computer. Just a few years ago, WiFi was an optional addition to one's computer setup for which one had to pay extra. Today it is standard equipment, and it is no longer possible to buy a computer modem that does not have a WiFi antenna already installed and operating. Those who do not want the radiation in their homes or businesses may have to spend considerable time and effort finding out how to turn off the WiFi in their modem. The result is that almost everyone who owns a computer has WiFi whether they know it or not, and anyone who lives in a residential neighborhood is commonly bombarded with a dozen or more WiFi signals from neighbors who may not even be using them. As if avoiding fixed WiFi hotspots wasn't enough, in June 2009 Novatel Wireless introduced a mobile WiFi device, called"MiFi."This personal device, which anyone can carry in their pocket, communicates directly with cell towers just like cell phones, turning the incoming waves from the tower into a wireless internet signal with a useful range of 30 feet. In 2010,the Droid X became the first Smart Phone with a built-in WiFi hotspot. On January 11, 2011, Verizon announced that its new iPhone would also have this capability, and soon Apple announced that all of its iPhones would soon have this feature as well. The forecast is that by the end of 2011 all Smart Phones will be walking WiFi antennas as well as cell phones, and that there will be no way to avoid exposure to WiFi except by avoiding human society. WiMAX For those wishing, or needing, to avoid exposure to microwave radiation, at least WiFi is mostly confined to the immediate vicinity of the homes or businesses that have installed it. Companies wishing to blanket entire cities with WiFi have previously found it difficult and expensive to do so. Being an unlicensed technology, it is subject to FCC rules strictly limiting the power level of each antenna. Until recently,this meant that even outdoor WiFi"hotspots" 7 had a range of at most a few hundred yards, and that laying a cloud of WiFi over a whole city required antennas in hundreds of locations. However, in late 2009 the FCC auctioned off spectrum in the 2.5 Ghz band for a new licensed service that does not have to comply with these limits. Antennas on a single tower now have a maximum range not of hundreds of yards,but of over 30 miles. This new technology is called, appropriately, WiMAX. With such an FCC license, a company called Clearwire Communications plans to establish service nationwide, laying a cloud of WiFi over not just individual cities, but over the whole United States. Further, in 2011 Clearwire intends to begin selling its own"4G" Smart Phone that will transmit voice, data, movies and live video over its same WiMAX network. On February 17, 2011 Clearwire announced that it had already built 14,500 "4G"towers, which reached approximately 119 million people in the U.S. SMART METERS The year 2010 also saw a general invasion of"Smart Meters" onto private properties across the nation—not only in those areas where utility companies had been slowly automating their meter reading for a few years,but as part of a stepped up nationwide plan for energy efficiency that is being coordinated from Washington. Consumers are not being allowed to opt out. Automated reading of water, gas and electric meters has been coming gradually into use over the last several years. Utility employees.no longer have to come to the customer's house once a month to manually read the new meters. Instead,they now drive quickly through the neighborhood to read all the meters at once with a remote device that they carry in their truck. Even though this is done only once a month, each meter on a customer's house is programmed to emit a microwave signal continuously, typically once every fifteen seconds, broadcasting consumption data day and night that can be read from at least a quarter of a mile away. The"Smart Grid,"mandated by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, is now intensifying this system. The idea is that if electricity usage in every household and business is continuously monitored and transmitted in digital form to central computers, energy efficiency will be promoted. Power will be automatically distributed where and when it is needed. Electricity use will be billed at different rates based on time of day and season, encouraging consumers to reduce their energy use during times of peak demand. Multiple layers of wireless technology are necessary for this to work. Antennas are added to utility meters to transmit information about overall energy usage. Additional antennas are installed on consumers' washing machines, clothes dryers and air conditioners, turning them into "smart appliances"that communicate directly with the power company's computer, which can turn appliances on during times of low usage, and off during times of excess demand. Hundreds of more powerful antennas are placed on utility poles that are distributed throughout the city. Similar to a Distributed Antenna System,this network is necessary to relay all the information between customers' premises and the power plant. L 8 Because"Smart" electric meters are directly connected to the wiring in customers' homes,the radio frequency energy they emit not only travels through the air,but is conducted into the wiring and surrounds customers in their homes. Reports of sleep disturbance,headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, ringing in the ears, memory loss and difficulty concentrating are widespread. NO MORE LIGHTBULBS Ordinary incandescent bulbs will soon be banned from sale. Like the"Smart Grid,"this is also being done in the name of energy efficiency. And it is also bad for our health. The only available substitutes for most ordinary indoor lighting are compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). These are being promoted as a"green" alternative because they use only one-third to one-fourth as much electricity to produce the same amount of light as an incandescent. However, CFLs produce radio waves and have become one of the main sources of"dirty electricity" in homes, schools, businesses and public buildings throughout the world. There is no mystery about why they emit radio waves. Ordinary fluorescent lamps suffer from an objectionable flicker, and in order to eliminate the flicker,manufacturers have inserted a device called a radio frequency ballast into every compact fluorescent bulb. This ballast converts house current, which reverses direction 60 times a second, into current that reverses direction 50 thousand times a second—thus eliminating the flicker but sending radio frequency energy throughout your house. CFLs are bad for the environment in other ways as well. They contain mercury and mercury vapor, and there is no safe way to dispose of them when they wear out. Just as important for many people is that the light that CFLs give off is harsh. Whereas incandescents produce a smooth spectrum of light like the sun, CFLs emit only at discrete frequencies. LED lighting,touted by some as another energy efficient alternative, is directional, not suitable where uniform lighting is needed, and is just as unnatural in emitting much of its light at discrete frequencies. Yet, with no healthy alternative available, governments throughout the world are banning incandescents. Australia was the first, prohibiting sales of all ordinary incandescent bulbs as of November 1, 2009. The European Union banned incandescents of 100 watts or more as of September 1,2009, and 75 watt bulbs as of September 1,2010, with 60 watt bulbs to be banned on September 1, 2011 and lower watt bulbs on September 1,2012. Canada plans to prohibit the sale of incandescents by 2012. In the United States, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requires 100-watt incandescents to be prohibited in January 2012, and 40-watt bulbs in January 2014. Many consumers are understandably stockpiling lightbulbs. NO MORE LANDLINES On February 8, 2011 the Federal Communications Commission took the first step toward doing away with telephone lines altogether. The telephone network is outdated, said the Commission, and will be entirely replaced by the Internet during the coming years. "Broadband 1 9 serves the same role in the 21 st century that telephone service served in the 20th century," said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. As a first step toward making this happen, the FCC is proposing to re-allocate money from the Universal Service Fund,which comes from a surcharge on every customer's telephone bill, and which until now has subsidized telephone service in rural communities,to instead pay for the development of broadband in those communities. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, released on February 8, states that"ubiquitous broadband infrastructure has become crucial to our nation's economic development and civic life." "Networks that provide only voice service are no longer adequate for the country's communication needs" and should no longer be subsidized, wrote the FCC. Once this proposal is published in the Federal Register, the public will have 30 days to submit comments. Arthur Firstenberg Santa Fe,New Mexico For more information contact: Cellular Phone Task Force P.O. Box 6216 Santa Fe, NM 87502 (505) 471-0129 www.cellphonetaskforce.org L 10.Lungs...28 11.Bone marrow...29 12.Hair and nails...29 13. Synergistic effects...29 14.Microwave hearing,and other sensing...30 15.Electrical sensitivity(ES)...31 16.Diagnosing ES:a guide for doctors...34 17.Mechanisms of injury...38 shear-strain/closed head injury...38 blood-brain and other barriers...40 calcium efflux...41 hypoxia...42 heavy metals...42 porphyria...43 molecular interactions...44 solid state physics...46 18.Conclusion...47 Endangered species...49 The danger from satellites 51 Bibliography...54 About the Author...83 This is an urgent plea to environmentalists and to those within the telecommunications industry, to doctors and businesspeople and government officials,that microwave radiation is an imminent danger to all of us more or less equally,and that for our common survival we must immediately halt the expansion of wireless communications upon this earth.There is no greater threat to our common future. Arthur Firstenberg June 22, 1997 Norwich,NY INTRODUCTION From Bill Gates'planned fleet of 300 satellites to the millions of ground based antennas being constructed through-out the world, our privacy is being invaded, our health undermined, our water polluted, endangered species threatened,the ozone layer destroyed,and our climate altered.The assault has already begun. The purpose of this report is to give a general overview of the environmental threats associated with the wireless revolution,and an in-depth review of 70 years of research into the health hazards of microwaves. The lack of an adequate review of the literature until now has led to the incorrect perception that the scientific evidence is contradictory and inconclusive. In fact the scientific evidence is consistent and overwhelming. Satellite systems In 1957 there were no artificial satellites in the sky above us. Today there are thousands. The list of countries that have launched satellites to date is huge: the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina,France,.Germany,Norway,Sweden,Spain,England,Russia,Turkey,China,Japan,Indonesia, India, Thailand, Korea, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, the European Community, Eastern Europe,the Arab League,Pan-Asia,and Intelsat(125 nations).Multinational corporations are sending up r. fleets. Even small private entrepreneurs are filling up the heavens with smaller, cheaper hardware. Whether a cellular phone company wants to provide global service, or a rancher in Australia wants to know the whereabouts of his cows,satellite technology will do the trick. Ground based towers The existing network of ground based antenna systems is not good enough. The telecommunications industry says it will need 270,000 more facilities immediately just in the United States(Microwave News, May /June 1996, p. 10), and comparable numbers elsewhere in the world. These are going up on lampposts and apartment buildings in cities, and on fresh eyesores throughout the suburbs, countryside and wilderness. In addition, satellite systems, which shine very weakly on us, need to communicate with their own network of powerful earth stations.These stations will proliferate along with the satellites. Pandora's box Until recently almost all radio transmitters have been fixed and their range limited.The addition of more broadcast channels and new types of communication devices did not change that.But with the advent of cellular technology, all limits have been lifted. Telephones are no longer just communicators but also transmitters, and they are mobile. Suddenly every human being is a potential source of radiation. Suddenly electronic communication is a human right. Suddenly fixed transmitters and satellites are being built to accommodate mobile human beings,rather than the other way around. Electromagnetic pollution will no longer remain concentrated in population centers, nor will radio transmitters be confined any longer to non-residential zones. In the space of a year or two, unless the people put a stop to it,this form of pollution will be spread more or less evenly over every square inch of the world. The power is small,but the reach is unlimited. There are among us today television towers that broadcast with a radiated power of 5 million watts.How much damage could the radiation from cellular equipment do by comparison? one might ask. Each antenna on a rooftop or tower generally emits less than 1000 watts,with 10-150 watts being the norm for lampposts and the sides of buildings. The answer is surprising. If you live 10 miles from a 5 mil-lion watt television station,you will receive more radiation from a cellular antenna that is on a lamppost on your block than you will from that TV station. And by U.S. law, a 5 million watt TV station must be separated from other stations of similar frequency by a distance of at least 175 miles.Cellular transmitters are far less restricted:they can and will proliferate without limit.And they can and will increase their broadcast power if it is profitable to do so. The new legal limit is 3500 watts per channel per transmitting station,with no limit at all on the number of channels or the number of towers or the number of companies broadcasting in the same area. Television signals also do not reach beyond line-of-sight from the tower, and are blocked by hills and buildings.The cellular transmitter is going to be right there where you are,anywhere on earth.You are no longer going to have the option of limiting your radiation exposure by living distant from antennas. Health hazards Microwave radiation is dangerous. As everyone knows, high levels will cook you. Low levels will also harm you in other ways. Another type of radiation that coming from electric power lines has been much more in the news in previous years.There is now a growing scientific consensus that the 60-cycle radiation from power lines is dangerous and can cause cancer,leukemia and other diseases.Fortunately the distribution of electricity is not yet wireless,and most of the earth's surface is still remote from high-tension wires. Power line radiation(50 or 60'cycles per second,or hertz)is especially harmful because it is close to the frequency of brain waves. Microwave radiation is especially harmful be-cause the wavelengths are smaller than our bodies.This radiation is therefore selectively absorbed by our bodies. Table 1 maximum frequency(Hz) wavelength power lines 60 3000 mi. AM radio 1,600 600 ft. short wave radio 30,000,000 30 ft. FM radio 108,000,000 10 ft. TV channels 2-13 216,000,000 5 ft. TV channels 14-69 806,000,000 1 ft. cellular phones 947,000,000 1 ft. PCS 2,400,000,000 6 in. satellites 50,000,000,000 1/4 in. Smaller waves are better absorbed by smaller body parts and smaller people(children). Cellular transmitters are not only going to be more common than any transmitters have ever been before, they are also broadcasting at the most dangerous frequencies. And this radiation will be doubly dangerous because all the new technology is going to be digital.Digital signals come in pulses, rather than continuously as is now the case,and pulsed radiation has been found by most investigators to be more injurious to living things at lower average levels of power than continuous radiation. Government safety standards In the United States the Federal Communications Commission has set standards of permissible irradiation of the general public. These standards are based on thermal hazards only, the assumption being that if microwaves aren't strong enough to cook you,they will do you no harm. For cellular telephone systems, exposure is permitted to power densities of 533 to 1000 µW/cm2(microwatts per square centimeter),de- pending on the frequency. These standards are at least ten million times the level which probably still exists over most of the surface of the earth, and at least ten billion times the level of microwaves we receive naturally from the sun and stars.They are also at least two hundred thousand times greater than what even most city residents have been exposed to until very recently (Tell and Mantiply 1980, Solon 1979,Zaret 1974,Szmigielski and Gil 1989). Table 2-Exposure levels(µW/cm2) average stellar signal .000000000000000000000001 cosmic radiation, 10 MHz .000000000000000008 from a quiet sun,all freq. .0000001 from one cellular satellite .0000001 in Tottenville,N.Y.C. 1978 .000068 average New York City 1979 .002 300 ft.from a cellular tower 5.0 in Empire State Building 1978 32.5 in Sears Tower 1978 65.7 F.C.C.Safety Standard 1996 1000.0 We can reasonably expect the radiation levels over most of the habitable parts of the earth to increase 1000-fold just as a beginning result of the current cellular expansion. How high those levels eventually will go is anybody's guess. The danger,even if we didn't have epidemiological studies, is evident. We cannot expect to increase the irradiation of the entire earth 1000-fold or more virtually overnight without health effects and without massive biological consequences.Indeed this technology is more invasive than virtually any other and-has the potential of causing worldwide catastrophe. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE The scientific literature is full of thousands of studies of the health effects of microwaves at power levels of 1-10 mW/cm2. I will not review those here. Supposedly those levels of expo-sure are not enough to cause heating of the body,yet the defenders of the 1 mW/cm2(1000 µW/cm2)safety standard dismiss any effects shown at those levels as heating effects.The absurdity of their position seems to escape them. But I will bypass their entire argument by only reviewing studies that show health effects at exposure levels of 500 µW/cm2 or less all the way down to.0000000026 µW/cm2. Contrary to general belief,this body of literature is consistent and not contradictory.Microwaves impact most obviously the nervous system and the heart.There is generally not a linear dose-response effect,and there is not a threshold below which there is no effect.An effect seen at low intensity will not necessarily be seen at high intensity, nor vice versa. Because the impact is cumulative, short-term experiments will not give the same results as long-term experiments.Often more than one type of effect will be seen in the same group of experimental subjects;therefore averaging the results may lose information.In light of all this, the kinds of studies that are doomed to obtain negative findings are those done at high intensities, short term, looking for thresholds and linear dose-responses, and averaging all their data. In this is consistency also. Some of the early animal experiments have been criticized because metal objects near the animals may have distorted the field and increased their radiation dose beyond what was reported. However,the more recent work(since the mid 1970s)has all been done in carefully shielded enclosures with no metal wires or objects,and has produced the same results.In any case,what we are trying to gauge here is the effect on human health, and none of us live in shielded houses devoid of wires or metal objects. The earliest research is therefore just as relevant to the human situation as the most recent,if not more so. 1.The nervous system Radiation sickness. Symptoms that may occur include headache,fatigue,weakness,sleep disturbances,irritability,dizziness, memory difficulty, emotional instability, depression, anxiety, sexual disorders, skin markings, rash, burning sensation in the face,acrocyanosis(blue fingers and toes),sweating,tremors,accentuated tendon reflexes,decreased abdominal reflexes, unequal pupil size, and unstable pulse and blood pressure.These symptoms were consistently found in con-trolled studies of workers exposed to various frequencies of microwaves on the job,by: Sadchikova (1960) in a clinical study of 525 workers ex-posed to microwave generating equipment. Those exposed to hundreds of microwats per square centimeter or less had symptoms more often than those exposed to higher intensities. Sadchikova(1974) in a clinical study of 1180 workers. Here too those exposed to lower intensities had more frequent symptoms than those exposed to higher intensities. Certain types of changes,for example hypotension and bradycardia,were more frequent at high intensities. Klimkova-Deutschova(1974)in a clinical study of 530 workers from 29 places of employment. Baranski and Edelwejn (1975) in a study of workers in the Military Institute of Aviation Medicine, Warsaw. Zalyubovskaya and Kiselev(1978)in a clinical study of 72 engineers and technicians. Bachurin (1979) in a clinical study of 100 television, radio, and other workers exposed to 20-60 µW/ cm2 and up to 100 µW/cm2 on occasion.Photophobia was also noted in an occasional worker. Sadchikova et al. (1980) in a clinical study of 50 industrial workers exposed to several hundred µW/ cm2. Huai(1981)in a clinical study of 841 workers in 11 factories and institutes,including 238 people exposed to less than 50µW/cm2. Gorbach(1982)in a clinical study of 142 workers exposed to microwave equipment. Trinos(1982)in a clinical study of 2247 workers at 2 industrial plants. Markarov et al.(1995),in a clinical study of 53 workers exposed to regular low-dose radiation. Several cases of psychosis have been described in workers with objective signs of radiation sickness. These patients developed symptoms of mania and paranoia that did not fit the pattern for schizophrenia and were treatable only by removal from exposure to radio waves(Chudnovskiy et al. 1979). Baranski and Czerski(1976)wrote,"The pathogenesis of these syndromes may be controversial but their existence can-not be denied. Similar observations were made by Miro in France, and in the United Kingdom and the United States, according to a personal communication made by Mumford to Seth and Michaelson"(p. 168). Sensory thresholds. Bourgeois (1967), in an experiment with 36 young men 18-25 years of age, found that a two-minute exposure to 500 µW / cm2 of 1000 MHz radiation significantly lowered their auditory threshold, i.e. made them more sensitive to sound.Both continuous and amplitude modulated waves had this effect. Lobanova and Gordon (1960), in a clinical study of 358 workers 20-35 years of age occupationally exposed to low-level microwaves,found that a majority had either abnormally high or,more often,abnormally low sensitivity to odors. A change in olfactory sensitivity was found to be one of the earliest signs of microwave influence. Baranski and Czerski (1976) review several studies which show that chronic microwave exposure also decreases auditory,visual,and skin sensitivity,both clinically and in EEG studies. EEG. Changes in the electroencephalogram show a generalized inhibition of the central nervous system as well as certain specific pathological patterns. In addition to general inhibition, Klimkova-Deutschova(1974) found small but specific changes in the EEG of many workers exposed to microwaves in the 3-13 centimeter band.This included synchronized slow waves of high amplitude, similar to those seen in epileptic seizures. The EEG was said to be an ECOLOGIST 4 1 . �1 ! j y.1 'pi 5t■ t ; a. !e MENU Home» News Mobile covered up phone study 18th April 2007 01• ' INVEq- T I I fig, 'a 4111111111* { 3 A study which directly linked the radiation from mobile phone transmitter masts with an increased risk of developing cancer C was covered up by operator T-Mobile, a scientist has claimed. F A riininr (.'7I A f The Ecolog Institute, a German research organisation which has been examining rthe effects of mobile phones since 1992, was commissioned by T-Mobile in 2000 to investigate the possible health risks of mobile phone masts. 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Mobile phones could lead to bee decline 16th April 2007 Radiation from mobile phones might be contributing to the world-wide loss of bee colonies, a new study has shown. • xw`a'�y • I, a a ..FA G/ininc f.' 1 A Journal of Community Medicine & mimic iieaim oreN8nccEss Nilsson M and Hardell L.J Community Med Public Health 7:382 www.doi.org/10.29011/2577-2228.100382 www.gavinpublishers.com Case ase Report c;:tvi.ntani_Isiii:as A 49-Year-Old Man Developed Severe Microwave Syndrome after Activation of 5G Base Station 20 Meters from his Apartment Mona Nilsson', Lennart Harde112X 'Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation,AdelsS,Sweden 2The Environment and Cancer Research Foundation,Orebro,Sweden "Corresponding author: Lennart Hardell,The Environment and Cancer Research Foundation,Orebro,Sweden Citation:Nilsson M,Hardell L(2023)A 49-Year-Old Man Developed Severe Microwave Syndrome after Activation of 5G Base Station 20 Meters from his Apartment.J Community Med Public Health 7:382.DOI:https://doi.org/10.29011/2577-2228.100382 Received Date: 01 November,2023;Accepted Date: 08 November,2023;Published Date: 13 November,2023 Abstract The deployment of the fifth generation,5G,for wireless communication has been rolled out in Sweden since 2019/2020. This has caused increased high-pulsed Radiofrequency(RF)radiation. In four case reports we have described persons that developed the microwave syndrome soon after installation of 5G base stations close to their residence or office.In this new case report a 49-year old previously healthy man is described.A 5G base station was installed 20 meters from his apartment. He rather immediately developed a variety of symptoms that are part of the microwave syndrome. Most severe were headache,dysesthesia(abnormal sensation),loss of immediate memory,high and irregular pulse,chest squeeze,burning and lancinating skin.Very high RF radiation was measured in his apartment,however much lower than the limits recommended by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection(ICNIRP):After moving to another apartment with low RF radiation the symptoms disappeared or decreased within a short time period but they reappear whenever he returns to his apartment close to the 5G antennas.This must be regarded as a provocation test on health and 5G radiation. Keywords: Base Station; 5G; Radiofrequency Radiation; effects that appear within short time of exposure (less than one Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity;Microwave Syndrome; Health hour).They offer no protection against long-term exposure and any other harmful effects that are not based on heating(non-thermal) Introduction [3-5]. The guidelines for reference values based on heating are 5G base stations for wireless communication have been set by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation deployed on a broad scale since 2019/2020 in many countries Protection(ICNIRP),a self-appointed private organization based in despite no previous research on possible negative effects from the Germany[3,5]. ICNIRP has world-wide influence and dominance radiation emitted from 5G on human health and the environment. on the evaluation of scientific evidence of negative health effects Exposure to pulse-modulated microwave (radiofrequency; RF) from RF radiation. Their guidelines are based on evaluations radiation has increased dramatically on a world-wide basis [1,2]. that have rejected non-thermal effects, despite growing evidence Microwaves are frequencies in the range of 300 MHz to 300 GHz. of a range of harmful effects well below the ICNIRP levels. The In city environments in Sweden, frequencies used for 5G are ICNIRP limits are of interest to the telecommunications industry currently in the 3.5 GHz band. 5G may be used in combination thereby facilitating the deployment of SG and the other wireless with 4G(https://pts.se/sv/5g/inforande-av-5g/). technologies emitting RF radiation[6,7]. The safety limits for exposure to RF radiation applied by Studies on possible health effects from exposure to the SG most countries around the world are still based on heating(thermal) frequencies around 3.5 GHz were until recently scarce [8]. In 1 Volume 7;Issue 04 J Community Med Public Health,an open access journal ISSN:2577-2228 Citation:Nilsson M,Hardell L(2023)A 49-Year-Old Man Developed Severe Microwave Syndrome after Activation of 5G Base Station 20 Meters from his Apartment.J Community Med Public Health 7:382.DOI:https://doi.org/10.29011/2577-2228.100382 2009 a study reported oxidative stress in the liver, kidneys, the were the neural, cardiovascular, and endocrine functions. plasma and increased electrical conductivity of hemoglobin in rats Investigations of exposed workers showed than microwave (RF) exposed during one month to a 3.5 GHz unmodulated signal with exposure at non—thermal levels caused symptoms such as fatigue, a calculated Specific Absorption Rate(SAR) of 1 W/kg,which is dizziness, headache, sleep disorders, anxiety, and problems with well below the ICNIRP SAR value of 2 W/kg[9]. attention and memory [20].A review of these studies, as well as In a study published in 2022,animals were exposed to the 5G studies on animals, concluded that "a surprisingly wide variety frequency 3.5 GHz(GSM modulated), 1 600 000 µW/m--,during 2 of neurological and physiological reactions are to be expected" hours a day,5 days a week during one month.The exposure caused because of exposure to non-thermal levels of RF/microwave oxidative stress and an increase of degenerated neurons in the radiation [21]. hippocampus region of the brain.The observed effects may trigger Other term for the illness was radiofrequency sickness neurodegenerative diseases if exposure is chronic according to syndrome [22,23]. The non-thermal effects depend primarily the authors [10].The level of exposure was non-thermal and well on the modulation and/or pulsation of the signal and also on the below the guidelines'recommended by ICNIRP[3,5]. peak and average intensities. Pulsed signals and simultaneous Another study from the same research group published exposure to several frequencies caused more effects and were thus in 2023, with similar exposure (rats exposed to 3.5 GHz, 1 600 considered more hazardous. The observed effects increased with 000 µW/m', 2 hours/day, 5 days/week during 30 days) reported time of exposure[23,24]. negative effects on bone strength and oxidative stress parameters In general, the symptoms declined after the exposure had in muscle tissue.The latter effect was more pronounced in diabetic ceased.According to Marha et al"at a certain time after exposure rats [11]. had ended(sometimes as long as several weeks or more)(see page In a recently published study, rats were exposed from 31),the organism usually returns to its original physiological state gestational day 8 to 21 days after birth to 3.5 GHz (continuous and all subjective and objective complaints vanish" [20]. ( wave)at 0.07 W/kg for22 h/day.Behavioral changes were observed Previous Studies on Health Effects near Base Stations or in the exposed group compared to the non-exposed group[12]. Mobile Phone Masts A study published in 2020 exposed zebrafish embryos to Since two decades studies investigating health effects RF radiation 3.5 GHz with SAR calculated to 8.27 W/kg, for 42 among inhabitants near mobile phone masts or base stations hours [13]. No significant impacts on mortality, morphology or have been published. Some studies have investigated prevalence photomotor responses were reported, however a slight effect on of symptoms identified within the microwave syndrome, others sensorimotor function which may lead to later effects as "adult have investigated other outcomes such as cancer or effects on neuropsychiatric outcomes, like those detected in previous RFR biochemical parameters, for instance hormones or indications [Radiofrequency Radiation] studies". The exposure lacked the of genetic damage [25,26]. One study from France has studied characteristics of real life exposure such as modulation,pulsation frequency of ALS [27].According to a review in 2022 of most of and simultaneous exposure to multiple frequencies. these studies, 17 of 23 studies showed evidence for radiofrequency In consequence, none of these studies used 5G signals sickness or the microwave syndrome, 10 of 13 reported increased corresponding to the exposure that people are exposed to in real cancer risks and six of eight studies found changes in biochemical life from 5G base stations that also may be used in combination markers among people living in the vicinity of masts or base with 4G technology.However the ones that are most similar to real stations[26]. life exposure are those that used GSM modulation[10,11]. Previous Studies on Health Effects from 5G Base Stations We recently published four case studies on health effects Recently we published a case report of two previously from 5G base stations[14-17].These studies showed that the study healthy persons,a man aged 63.years and a woman aged 62 years, persons developed the microwave syndrome after the installation who quickly developed symptoms compatible with the microwave of 5G base stations that caused high pulsed RF radiation to their syndrome after installation of a 5G base station on the roof above dwellings. their apartment[14].Very high RF radiation with maximum peak The Microwave Syndrome level >2 500 000 µW/m- was measured in the bedroom located only 5 meters below the new 5G base station on the roof. That is Microwave syndrome, sickness or illness as an effect of the upper detection limit for the used exposimeter,Safe and Sound microwave exposure, was reported already in the 1960's and Pro II. Before the deployment of the 5G base station maximum 1970's in the East European countries [18,19]. Most affected peak level of 9 000 µW/m2 was measured from the 3G/4G base 2 Volume 7;Issue 04 J Community Med Public Health,an open access journal ISSN:2577-2228 Citation:Nilsson M,Hardell L(2023)A 49-Year-Old Man Developed Severe Microwave Syndrome after Activation of 5G Base Station 20 Meters from his Apartment.J Community Med Public Health 7:382.DOI:https://doi.org/10.29011/2577-2228.100382 station that had been located at the same place since several years. This Case Study Due to the severity of the experienced symptoms, the couple In this article we present a new case study of a man,aged 49 left the apartment within a couple of days for another dwelling with much lower maximum peak RF radiation of 3 500 µW/m-- years and living together with his adolescent daughter,at 20 meters distance from a 5G base station with antennas directed towards Their symptoms abated within few days.This is an example of a his apartment situated on the third floor of a three floor building provocation test. (Figure 1).The base station was deployed in November 2022 and In our second study we presented two men that also placed on the roof of a three floor building on the opposite side of- developed the microwave syndrome after installation of 5G base the street.The man's apartment is situated at the same level as the station on the roof of the building where their office was located base station,since the building with the base station is located at a at the top floor [15]. High RF radiation levels were measured in slightly lower height(Figure 2). the office with highest maximum peak radiation level of 1 180 -- 000 µW/m' after the deployment of the 5G base station. Within ?y,'`45', wV a/' short time after leaving the offices the symptoms that the two men .r"x.>r"<: xu`3`: s ;=" 4:: ` had developed below the 5G base station disappeared. As in the c'A'_.5 :'ka ,Y =f„ 'r first study, a base station for 3G/4G was already at the spot since several years prior to the replacement by 5G. This was another �` clear example of a provocation test with the persons being their ryo�' own control subjects. In our third case study we studied the exposure to RF radiation `s T: L_ fi•om a 5G base station and the health status of a woman aged , , ;;,..�.. 52 years living in an apartment 60 meters from the 5G antennas "e'z` ,>:,w directed at her apartment. The woman developed symptoms of ,!'_'`;"`; '`,,t the microwave syndrome within days after the deployment of the 5G base station [16]. Very high peak RF radiation levels,>2 500 Figure 1: Map showing the position of the man's apartment(A) 000 µW/m2,were measured on the balcony facing the base station and the position of the 5G base station (B). The distance is only (highest detection limit for the used exposimeter). In the living 20 meters and the antennas of the base station are directed towards room maximum peak levels varied between 222 000 and 758 the apartment. 000 µW/m2 at the sofa and window, respectively. The symptoms declined after the woman had left the apartment for anotherii 'R , '- dwelling with considerably lower peak RF radiation levels. �'� ;� _� _ In our fourth case study,we investigated the health of three `.. : , rt persons within a family living in an apartment with two 5G base ,'i , �ti stations at 50 and 70 meters distance,respectively[17].Maximum T 4, ,; .�. -' + zts M,n :r (peak) levels of RF radiation measured in the bedrooms of the ,.;%--. ,r= ,-, , d {t ZCSt,t R I S 1 three studied persons varied from 1 200 000 W/m-to 166 000 �' T � + ; µW/m2 near the window and were also high at the pillow in the `a ' .—,. . ,. r, _ � 1 beds, although lower than at the window. The 5G base stations , r 4:4W' }t I xo'; - ; `, had been deployed and activated in 2021 and 2022 and there had ' fit II 41`A' .€ T ,r- - : . previously been 3G/4G base stations at the same spot.The family j,/ ' �`%t r irr - - -=,, 1 members suffered in various degrees to several of the symptoms ---- --- -:: --� - -, "A' .r. J�. [ identified in the microwave syndrome. Figure 2: Picture of the 5G base station with antennas directed These four studies are,to our knowledge among the first towards the studied apartment. that have been published on health effects in persons exposed to A base station for 3G/4G had previously been active at least real life 5G RF radiation.Thus,we were motivated to investigate since 2013 on the roof of the same building in front of the man's further the potential health effects of being exposed to RF radiation apartment,however at a distance further away.The man had lived from 5G base stations. in the apartment during the same period. L , 3 Volume 7;Issue 04 J Community Med Public Health,an open access journal ISSN:2577-2228 Citation:Nilsson M,Hardell L(2023)A 49-Year-Old Man Developed Severe Microwave Syndrome after Activation of 5G Base Station 20 Meters from his Apartment.J Community Med Public Health 7:382.DOI:https://doi.org/10.29011/2577-2228.100382 The man and his daughter left the apartment for another Results dwelling only one week after the deployment of the 5G base Measurements of RF radiation station due to the severe effects on the man's health. It became unbearable to stay in the apartment and he even feared for his life Table 1 shows the results of measurements of RF radiation due to the severity of the experienced health effects. In the new made April 25,2023.The highest levels were found in the part of dwelling,levels of measured radiation were very much lower.The the apartment closest to the 5G base stations;the living room and man revisited the apartment repeatedly during several months to the daughter's bedroom. The levels reached the maximum peak pick up personal belongings. measureable level 3 180 000 within 10-15 seconds for each of the Methods ten measurements during one minute at both investigated spots in the living room,the sofa and the table(see Table 1). On April 25,2023,the authors of this study visited the man and the apartment of this study for measurements of RF radiation Location Max(peak) in the apartment. He was also asked to reply questions about Living room,sofa' >3 180 000 to>3 180 000 symptoms identified within the microwave syndrome and the estimated severity of the symptoms. The questionnaire was also Living room,tablet >3 180 000 to>3 180 000 used in our previous case studies.The daughter did not participate Sleeping room,pillow,man 105 000 to 240 000 in this study. 3 Sleeping room,pillow, 146 000 to 820 000 The measurements were made in the evening of April 25, daughter 2023 between 7 and 8 pm,with the device Safe and Sound Pro II Sleeping room,desk,'daughter 1 830 000 to>3 180 000 broadband RF meter.The true response detection range is between 400 MHz and 7.2 GHz. It was calibrated by the manufacturer Kitchen,table 67 000 to 731 000 and has an accuracy of ±6 dB (https://safelivingtechnologies. '50 cm from outer wall;2 140 cm from outer wall;3 200 cm from com/products/safe-and-sound-pro-ii-rf-meter.html). The upper outer wall; '50 cm from outer wall. i detection limit for peak values of the used exposimeter in this study Table 1: Measurement of RF radiation in an apartment on April was 3 180 000 µW/m2 with linear response between 0.1 tW/mz and 1 000 0001AW/m2.At every investigated place in the apartment 25, 2023. Results are given in µW/m'. Ten measurements with Safe and Sound Pro II were made at every place, each during one 10 measurements,each during 1 minute,were made and the peak value was documented minute.Lowest and highest peak levels are displayed. On October 6, 2023, new measurements were made in the Also in the daughter's room very high levels were measured apartment, also in the evening between 6 and 7 pm. This time with a peak level at the desk that varied from 1 830 000 µW/m2 the Narda broadband field meter NBM-550, with the probe EF- to>3 180 000 µW/m' for the 10 measurements. (see Table 1 and 1891, measuring frequencies between 3 MHz-18 GHz,was used. Figure 3).The desk was only 50 cm from the outer wall,thus the In addition new measurements with the Safe and Sound Pro II bed situated at 200 cm from the wall was slightly less exposed. broadband RF meter were made.This meter shows peak levels of Measured levels varied from 146 000 to 820 000 µW/m'(see Table RF radiation whereas the Narda meter shows results in Root Mean 1 and Figure 3). In the man's bedroom,measured levels at pillow Square(RMS)for both maximum and average.All measurements in the bed ranged from 105 000 to 240 000 µW/m', (See Table 1 were made once during 2 minutes at each location. and Figure 4).In the kitchen the levels varied between 67 000 µW/ m2 and 731 000 µW/m2. 4 Volume 7;Issue 04 J Community Med Public Health,an open access journal ISSN:2577-2228 Citation:Nilsson M,Hardell L(2023)A 49-Year-Old Man Developed Severe Microwave Syndrome after Activation of 5G Base Station r- 20 Meters from his Apartment.J Community Med Public Health 7:382.DOI:https://doi.org/10.29011/2577-2228.100382 3 500 000 3 000 000 ;—�, — AP s 2 500 000 RI ii A 3N 2 000 000 F r i?' 0 h A_ 4 wli , ..q:' I 0 I i I s`-' w ®bed pdow 1 500 000 _;Y° P-I1H ? ^—[1" — desk PA ; --,i rl 0i k M N4 k"' 500000 ;2 ii g el "'i Ly i ii rte lull c, .f A MI ,:i A '1 .,,. t I fzg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Figure 3: Measurements of RF radiation(µW/m2)April 25,2023 in daughter's room at the pillow situated 200 cm from outer wall,and at the desk situated 50 cm from outer wall. Ten measurements with Safe and Sound Pro II were made at every place, each during one ( minute. 300 000 250000 200000 150000 —'" ®bed pillow100000 i 50 000 • 0 ' , _ i , , 1 I . f I 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 • 9 10 Figure 4: Measurements of max(peak)RF radiation(p.W/m2)April 25,2023 in the man's bedroom at the pillow.Ten measurements with Safe and Sound Pro II were made,each during one minute. C 5 Volume 7;Issue 04 J Community Med Public Health,an open access journal ISSN:2577-2228 Citation:Nilsson M,Hardell L(2023)A 49-Year-Old Man Developed Severe Microwave Syndrome after Activation of 5G Base Station 20 Meters from his Apartment.J Community Med Public Health 7:382.DOI:https://doi.org/10.29011/2577-2228.100382 Table 2 shows the results of the follow-up measurements on In the living room and at the door entrances to the hall and October 6, 2023. The highest levels of maximum RF radiation, the daughter's sleeping room,peak levels with the Safe and Sound measured with the Narda-550 meter in RMS were at the door Pro II were >3 180 000 µW/m'-, thus higher than the maximum entrance to the daughter's sleeping room, 1 368 021 1.1.W/m2.The RMS values obtained with the Narda-550 meter (Table 2). It average RMS value was 332 732 µW/m2 at the same place. In should be noted that the upper detection limit for Safe and Sound the entrance hall and the living room also very high levels were Pro II was 3 180 000 µW/m2. obtained with the Narda meter. Maximum RMS levels between 1 043 047(hall entrance), 997 274(living room sofa), and 571 624 µW/m2(living room table)were documented. Location Narda RMS Max Narda RMS Average S&S Pro Max Peak Living room,sofa 997 274 135 983 >3 180 000 Living room,table 571 624 101 306 >3 180 000 Sleeping room,pillow,daughter 88 616 24 491 504 000 Sleeping room,door,daughter 1 368 021 332 732 >3 180 000 Sleeping room,desk,daughter 137 889 47 686 749 000 Sleeping room,pillow,man 30 483 13 668 269 000 Kitchen,table 38 302 12 838 249 000 Entrance hall 1 043 047 303 687 >3 180 000 Table 2: Measurement of RF radiation in an apartment on October 6,2023 with Narda-550,probe EF-1891,and Safe and Sound(S& S)Pro II.Results are given in µW/m2 and for Narda results are given as Root Mean Square(RMS). Health symptoms The results for self-assessed symptoms by the man,before and after the deployment of the 5G base station as well as after moving to another apartment,are presented in Table 3. Symptom October 2022,before 5G November 2022,with 5G Other dwelling,without 5G, May 2023 Headache 2 10 0 Dysesthesia 0 10 0 Myalgia 0 0 0 Arthralgia 0 0 0 Ear heat/otalgia 0 0 0 Tinnitus 0 0 0 Hyperacousis 0 0 0 Dizziness 0 0 0 Balace disorder 0 0 0 Concentration/Attention deficiency 2 8 0 Loss of immediate memory 2 10 0 Confusion 0 3 0 C 6 Volume 7;Issue 04 J Community Med Public Health,an open access journal ISSN:2577-2228 Citation:Nilsson M,Hardell L(2023)A 49-Year-Old Man Developed Severe Microwave Syndrome after Activation of 5G Base Station P 20 Meters from his Apartment.J Community Med Public Health 7:382.DOI:https://doi.org/10.29011/2577-2228.100382 Fatigue 3 8 0 Sleeping difficulty - insomnia 2 7 0 - waking night time 1 7 0 - early wake-up 1 1 0 Depression tendency 2 8 0 Sucidal ideation 0 0 0 Cardiovascular abnormalities - transitory high pulse 0 10 0 - irregular pulse 0 10 0 - slow pulse 0 0 0 Blood pressure high/low 0 3 0 Occular deficiency 0 4 0 Light sensitivity 0 0 0 Anxiety/Panic 0 2 0 ( Emotive 2 4 0 Irritability 3 7 0 Global body dysthermia 0 5 0 Dyspnoea 0 5 0 Chest squeeze 0 0 0 Chest pain 0 10 0 Cough 0 0 0 Nausea 0 3 0 Diarrehea(involuntary) .0 2 0 Abdominal pain 0 0 0 Urinary system 0 0 0 -urgency Skin(face,arms,legs)) 0 4 2 -burning,lancinating skin on hands and 0 10 3 arms -bruises,hemorrhages 1 3 0 Nose bleeding 0 0 0 Hair loss 0 1 0 1 Table 3: Clinical symptoms grades 0-10.Grade 0=no symptoms, 10=unbearable pain and/or discomfort in a man aged 49 years. (.-- 7 Volume 7;Issue 04 J Community Med Public Health,an open access journal ISSN:2577-2228 Citation:Nilsson M,Hardell L(2023)A 49-Year-Old Man Developed Severe Microwave Syndrome after Activation of 5G Base Station 20 Meters from his Apartment.J Community Med Public.Health 7:382.DOI:https://doi.org/10.29011/2577-2228.100382 The most severe symptoms,graded to be 10 on the 10-grade to microwave/RF radiation. severity scale, were headache, dysesthesia (abnormal sensation), The levels of RF radiation measured in the man's apartment loss of immediate memory,transitory high pulse, irregular pulse, are among the highest measured so far in our case studies on health chest pain,burning and lancinating skin on hands and arms.Other effects from exposure to 5G base stations.In our first case study also symptoms graded between 7 and 8 on the severity scale were very high peak levels were measured with the Safe and Sound Pro fatigue, sleeping problems, concentration/attention deficiency, II meter,>2 500 000 µW/m2(bedroom),the maximum measurable depression tendency and irritability. value for the used meter at that time [14].This time a meter with As can be seen in Table 3,the man had since before much less maximum>3 1800 000 µW/m2 was used and the maximum level self-estimated health problems. However he had e.g., headache, was reached within 10-15 seconds for each measurement in the fatigue, sleeping difficulties, irritability and loss of immediate living room.These levels are extremely much higher than levels of memory, grades 1-3, before the 5G exposure. After living in the measured RF radiation exposure that had previously been reported new dwelling with considerably lower exposure to RF radiation, to be linked to similar symptoms among people living near mobile nearly all these health issues had disappeared by May 2023,apart phone masts and base stations for previous generations of mobile from some skin problems,but now graded lower between 2 and 3. phone technology.However the measured levels are far below the Measurements made with the Safe and Sound Pro II meter recommended ICNIRP 2020 limits for the 5G frequency [3]. For on October 11,2023 showed low levels of RF radiation in the new these frequencies ICNIRP recommends maximuml0 000 000 µW/ dwelling. Levels between 20 and 45 µW/m-were obtained at the m averaged over 30 minutes. pillow in the bed and between 20 and 50 µW/m2 in the sofa in the The Narda-550 average RMS values for the highest exposed living room(not in Table). rooms in this study were between 101 306 (living room table) and 332 732 µW/m2 (entrance to the daughter's room) averaged Discussion over 2 minutes.There are no available studies showing that these During the week from the deployment of the 5G base measured levels, or maximum levels that are recommended by station until the man and his daughter left the apartment the man ICNIRP, are not harmful to human health when humans are full- experienced worsening symptoms that started shortly after the 5G body exposed to RF radiation from different generations of base exposure started.He got headache that he described as"extreme", stations for wireless communication. Nevertheless, in spite of a sense of tingling in his body and dry eyes.The slightest effort, this, ICNIRP's chairman has argued that the ICNIRP limits will such as doing the dishes or lifting up something, caused pain in protect the public from any harmful effects from 5G(https://www. his chest. His body swelled and he got bruises all over the body. techspot.com/news/84370-international-watchdog-study-finds- Due to the swelling of the feet, his shoes did not fit anymore. 5g-safe.html). During this first week, after leaving the apartment for work, the However,this case study shows that 5G at levels far below symptoms disappeared after some hours. However, they recurred the ICNIRP limits may cause severe health effects in short time. and worsened each time he returned to the apartment. The man and his daughter left the apartment already one week Previously a study has found that exposure from a base after the start of the 5G base station due to the man's increasingly station for previous generations of telecommunications was unbearable symptoms.During that week,the daughter complained associated with increased prevalence of fatigue, irritability, headaches,nausea, loss of appetite, sleeping disorder, depressive of headache and had sleeping problems. tendency,feeling of discomfort,difficulty in concentration,loss of During the winter and until May 2023 the man returned memory, visual disorder, dizziness and cardiovascular problems. repeatedly to the apartment to pick up his personal belongings.He The highest exposure group was exposed to between 165 and 4 estimates that over time his sensitivity to exposure to RF radiation 400 µW/m2 in the bedroom[28]. has increased as the symptoms develop rather immediately Another earlier study reported headaches,cold hands or feet, when he returns. After each such exposure, it also takes longer difficulties in concentrating,tremor,loss of appetite,and feeling of time before they disappear once he returns to the new low-level exhaustion in the highest exposure group exposed to between 500 radiation dwelling. and 4 100 µW/m2 in the bedroom[29]. The symptoms experienced by the man are typical for Further, a significant correlation between measured RF the microwave syndrome or the microwave illness. Headache, radiation from mobile phone base stations and insomnia,depression, sleeping problems and effects on the heart are well documented cerebral symptoms,joint illnesses, infections,skin changes,heart and reported repeatedly in studies on health effects due to exposure and circulation disorders,and disorders of the optical and acoustic 8 Volume 7;Issue 04 J Community Med Public Health,an open access journal ISSN:2577-2228 1 Citation:Nilsson M,Hardell L(2023)A 49-Year-Old Man Developed Severe Microwave Syndrome after Activation of 5G Base Station 20 Meters from his Apartment.J Community Med Public Health 7:382.DOI:https://doi.org/10.29011/2577-2228.100382 sensory systems,and the gastro-intestinal tract were reported in a References study where the most exposed group was exposed on average to 3 1. Koppel T, Ahonen M, Carlberg M, Hardell L (2022) Very high 631 µW/m2(1.17 V/m)in the bedroom[30]. radiofrequency radiation at Skeppsbron in Stockholm, Sweden from mobile phone base station antennas positioned close to pedestrians' A recent review on health risks from the wireless technology heads.Environ Res 208:112627. concluded that "there are numerous non-thermal effects from 2 Koppel T, Hardell L (2022) Measurements of radiofrequency wireless radiation on reproduction, development, and chronic electromagnetic fields,including 5G,in the city of Columbia,SC,USA. illness" [31].Further, in an Essay it was stated that"Based on the World Acad Sci J 4:22. precautionary principle,the author echoes the calls of others for a 3. International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection moratorium on the further roll-out of 5G systems globally,pending (ICNIRP). (2020) Guidelines for limiting exposure to electromagnetic more conclusive research on their safety."[32]. fields(100 kHz to 300 GHz).Health Phys 118:483-524. Since 2017 seven appeals, today endorsed by 434 4. International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic scientistsFields (ICBE-EMF). (2022) Scientific evidence invalidates health and medical doctors, have been sent to EU requesting assumptions underlying the FCC and ICNIRP exposure limit a moratorium on the deployment of 5G until health risks have determinations for radiofrequency radiation: implications for 5G. been investigated (http://www.5gappeal.eu/). These calls have Environ Health 21:92. not had any effect on the progress of this technology. On the 5. Lin JC (2023) Incongruities in recently revised radiofrequency contrary the EU Commission has proposed a regulation called exposure guidelines and standards,Environ Res 222:115369. the Gigabit Infrastructure Act (GIA) for deployment of 5G 6. 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Dasgupta S,Wang G,Simonich MT,Zhang T,Truong L,et al.(2020) Impacts of high dose 3.5 GHz cellphone radiofrequency on zebrafish Funding: Support for this report was received from Agartha AB embryonic development.PLoS One.15:e0235869. 14. Hardell L, Nilsson M (2023) Case Report:The microwave syndrome Availability of data and materials: The information generated after installation of 5G emphasizes the need for protection from and analyzed during the current study is available from the radiofrequency radiation.Ann Case Report 8:1112. corresponding author on reasonable request. 15. Nilsson M,Hardell L(2023)Development of the microwave syndrome Author's contributions: Both authors participated in the in two men shortly after installation of 5G on the roof above their office. Ann Clin Case Rep.8:2378. conception, design and writing of the manuscript, and have read and approved the final version. 16. 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Frank JW(2021)J Electromagnetic fields,5G and health:what about Symposium Proceedings Richmond,Virginia,September 17-19,1969. the precautionary principle?Essay Epidemiol Community Health.75: Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Public Health Service 562-566. Bureau of Radiological Health Rockville,Maryland 20852. • 10 Volume 7;Issue 04 J Community Med Public Health,an open access journal ISSN:2577-2228 Electrical Sensitivity Arthur Firstenberg & Susan Molloy Latitudes v.5, i.4 _July 1, 2002 The 750,000-watt Doppler weather radar at Fort Dix, New jersey, overlooks the Township of Brick. Why is that of interest to anyone but meteorologists? It's not, except that eight out of every 1000 children born in Brick since the radar station was built in 1994 are autistic. The Brick Township Autism Investigation (1), conducted in 1998 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, uncovered 60 cases of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among children aged three through ten in this town of 77,000 residents. As in much of the rest of the world, autism is increasing here. But the prevalence of both ASD and classic autism in Brick Township were found to be dramatically higher than normal in the 3-to-5-year-old age group, i.e., those born since 1994. Forward-thinking educators and parents have done a good job in recent years of tackling the difficult issues involved in protecting sensitive children from chemical contaminants, dyes, preservatives, and allergens in their food, medications, classrooms, and homes. However, an additional burden has been overlooked and even ridiculed as untenable as a factor in many children's profound neurological and behavioral problems. Some readers may react with disbelief to our suggestion that the Fort Dix Doppler might qualify for a place on the "radar screen" of those scientists who are puzzled by the local epidemic of autism. (2) The authors of this article are adults who are made extremely sick, sometimes incapacitated, from exposure to "normal" amounts of electromagnetic energy. We've seen some children respond as we do, as their well-meaning parents and teachers equip them with newer, faster, more powerful "safety" and communication devices, oblivious to the potential consequences for their children's health and development. We're not oblivious to these consequences because we ourselves respond directly and immediately, with debilitating pain, confusion, and neurological symptoms, to cell phones, cordless phones, computers, televisions, and other normal L 1 elements of today's home, work and school environments. And we are in increasingly good company. Gro Harlem Brundtland is director-general of the World Health Organization. A medical doctor with a master's degree in public health, as well as former prime minister of Norway, she has recently been speaking in public about her own sensitivity to computers, cordless phones and cell phones. Not only has she warned parents against allowing their children to use cell phones or microwave ovens, but she said that she herself has become so sensitive to the radiation that she does not allow anyone to enter her office with a cell phone turned on. "If you enter my office, you are invited by me. No one who is invited would like to give me headaches," she said at a news conference in Oslo on July 1, 2002, where she was attending an international conference on cancer. Awakening to the potential of electricity to affect children's health and development can be initially disheartening, because electromagnetic pollution is so inescapable, and its sources so often are "conveniences" for which we've eagerly expended considerable resources. It can also be empowering, because it gives parents and practitioners an additional tool and offers a new range of potential factors that may be influencing seemingly intractable health or behavior problems. Both of us went to school and were graduated from college before personal computers, cell phones, the Internet, and everything that goes along with them even existed. As environmentally sensitive people,, we feel lucky to have grown up before today's conditions became the norm. What Can We Do? Computers in the classroom are practically unquestioned now, and that is fine for the durable. However, our society should provide computer-free classrooms for those vulnerable children for whom this is a necessary and effective accommodation. In schools where wireless computers—or regular computers with wireless keyboards/mice—are installed, even a computer-free classroom will not be an effective intervention for a child whose Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or Obsessive Compulsive 2 Disorder is triggered or exacerbated by electromagnetic radiation. (f"-- This is because the microwave frequencies used by these technologies, identical to the frequencies used in a microwave oven, pass through walls and do not respect the boundaries of classrooms. What we suggest runs counter to the prevailing educational trend, which is to throw more and more computer-enabled devices at physically and developmentally disabled children in an effort to improve their functioning, without any consideration of the potential effects of the extra radiation on their developing nervous systems. When adult populations were sampled within the last year for the prevalence of electrical sensitivity, estimates by researchers varied from-1.5% (Stockholm, Sweden) to 3.3% (state of California) to 7% (Marin County, California) of the population. One patient group in Germany puts the number as high as 15% of the German population. Nobody knows exactly, because this is an isolating, disabling, and ridiculed problem that is still in the public health "closet," along with most of its victims. Children are the most vulnerable segment of the population. They are also the most unaware of the potential effects of this invisible and largely unacknowledged pollutant coming from equipment that is so fervently sought by their peers and esteemed by their parents and teachers. Medical facilities, also, are sites of electronics' proliferation. The growing field of medical telemetry uses wireless technology to monitor the vital signs of hospital patients. But also, in hospitals, nursing homes, day care and elder care facilities, mental health institutions and group homes, remote monitoring of patients is in increasing use, not only for medical purposes, but simply to cut back on personnel costs. New automobiles have much larger electromagnetic fields than they had ten or twenty years ago. This is due to multiple computer-controlled operating systems, GPS satellite-tracking devices, digital dashboard displays, and, commonly, a cell phone constantly charging in the car. The situation is not hopeless. L 3 At home, every parent can easily do the following experiment: tonight, before your family goes to bed, unplug all of these items you may have in your home: the TV, the computer, the base unit of the cordless phone, the entertainment center, and the baby monitor. Notice the quality of everyone's sleep, how you feel in the morning on awakening, and note whether you and your child seem calmer. Appliances should be completely unplugged, not just turned off at a surge protector (which itself may be a source of electromagnetic fields). If your child has a motorized wheelchair, don't plug it in overnight next to his or her bed. Often these children are especially vulnerable as they may already have epilepsy, cerebral palsy, or other mobility-impairing conditions. Electric floor or ceiling heaters, fluorescent lights, dimmer switches, and electronic security systems can all produce problematic electromagnetic fields. Finding all the sources and eliminating or avoiding them requires patience and may be time- consuming but is not necessarily difficult or expensive. Your basic measuring tools are a $40 magnetic field meter, or "gaussmeter," and a cheap (poorer quality is better for this purpose) battery-operated AM radio. When the gaussmeter reads 0.2 milligauss or less, and the radio, when tuned between stations, remains silent (does not buzz or give loud static), you have a relatively calm environment—especially important in the sleeping area. These two measuring devices will not detect the very high frequency radiation produced by cordless phones, wireless computers, baby monitors, remote controls for appliances, radio- controlled toys, and other wireless equipment. We recommend eliminating wireless technology from the environment altogether.. Many homes will have ambient magnetic fields that cannot be reduced to 0.2 milligauss because of factors outside your control, most commonly nearby power lines and transformers. Neighbors' activities may also be a factor. But reducing exposures to the extent possible within the home may still have a significant effect, especially on neurological or behavioral problems in developing children. Exposures outside our own control, such as from the street, a radar station or cell tower, at school, or in hospitals and medical facilities, can be dealt with effectively only on a societal 4 4 level. We have a long way to go before these problems are given the serious attention they deserve. Ironically, some of our societal problems, such as school violence and kidnappings of children—even before 9/11 added to our worries—are being used as reasons to attach more cell phones to our kids for their safety and our peace of mind. But these very devices, and the millions of towers and antennas that make their use possible, expose all of us to a level of radiation that we know (from studies and painful firsthand experience) can contribute to the anxiety, depression, irritability, impulsivity, confusion, and general unrest that feed the very concerns which led to the need for all those cell phones in the first place. This can begin to change as more of us turn them off and experience the difference. FOOTNOTES: 1.Bertrand, J. et al. Prevalence of Autism in a United States Population: The Brick Township, New Jersey Investigation, Pediatrics 108:1155-1161 (2001). 2. The Doppler appears to be the latest addition to a number of radar facilities in the area. McGuire Air Force Base, Fort Dix Military Reservation, and Lakehurst Naval Air Warfare Center are all located west of Brick. Military jets from those bases, equipped with powerful radars of their own, also fly over Brick on their way out to sea. SUGGESTED READING: George Carlo, Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age, Carroll & Graf, New York, 2001. Jane M. Healy, Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds—and What We Can Do About It, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998. B. Blake Levitt, ed., Cell Towers: Wireless Convenience? Or Environmental Hazard?, New Century Publishing, Sheffield, MA, 2000. Lucinda Grant, The Electrical Sensitivity Handbook, Weldon Publishing, Prescott, AZ, 1995. 5 Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden, The Body Electric: Electro- cmagnetism and the Foundation of Life, William Morrow, New York, 1985. ** Electromagnetic field (EMF) meters may he obtained from Alpha Lab, 1280 South 300 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, (800)-769- 3754 Less EMF, Inc., 26 Valley View Lane, Ghent, NY 12075, (888) LESS-EMF. About the authors: Arthur Firstenberg is founder and director of the Cellular Phone Taskforce, a nonprofit organization that disseminates information about electromagnetic radiation and advocates for electrically sensitive people. He is editor of the Taskforce's publication, No Place to Hide, and the author of Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution. [Also see Killing Fields - Arthur Firstenberg / The Ecologist v.34, n.5, 1jun04] After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1971 with a B.A. in mathematics, he went to medical school from 1978 to 1982. Injury by x-ray overdose cut short his career. Firstenberg explains that after receiving about 50 diagnostic x-rays during extensive dental work, he became sensitive to high-powered equipment in the hospitals where he worked. "I could literally feel the radiation from the equipment; it made me weak and dizzy, but I kept working. After several months I collapsed. I was 31 and no one knew the cause of my illness. I was bedridden for about three months and at first I was not sure if I would survive." Firstenberg's symptoms included a slow heartbeat, chest pain, extreme shortness of breath on exertion, and weight loss. By reading Eastern European literature on the subject, he eventually discovered that he had the symptoms of radio wave sickness. He later learned that any type of electromagnetic field may provoke similar illness in sensitive people, which commonly manifests with nausea, dizziness, headache, irritability, insomnia, and difficulty with memory and concentration. He also gradually became chemically hypersensitive. His therapeutic approach is strict avoidance. At home, he has no computer, no television, no wireless equipment, no microwave, 6 and uses only incandescent lighting. He moved cross-country to Mendocino, California which has minimal electrical pollution, and he is symptom-free as long as he avoids exposure. As is often the case in advocacy organizations, Firstenberg's personal experience led him to study the condition that plagued him. He is now an international spokesperson and advisor on the subject of electrical sensitivity (ES). He can be contacted by phone at (505) 471-0129, by mail: Cellular Phone Task Force; P.O. Box 6216; Santa Fe, NM 87502 or through the Cellular Phone Task Force Web site: www.cellphonetaskforce.org Susan Molloy has an MA in disability policy and provides referrals and troubleshooting for people with symptoms provoked by environmental exposures. She is cofounder of the Environmental Health Network (EHN) of California and edited EHN's newsletter for 11 years. She served as chair of the Independent Living Council in Arizona and works at New Horizons Independent Living Center in Prescott Valley. She works from home due to her inability to withstand electromagnetic exposure, and uses a custom-shielded computer provided by Arizona Rehab. Services Admin. Molloy has a history of allergies since childhood and was hospitalized with chemical sensitivities at age 31. ES symptoms emerged shortly after this. "When I go under power lines or fluorescent lights it feels like a blow to the top of my head," she explains. Asked if she could run errands, Molloy explains, "I can go into stores and other buildings. It's getting back out that's the problem. I tend to lose coordination and would often be stumbling if I didn't use a wheelchair. I get disoriented and my speech is also affected." Professional-grade ear protectors help soften the impact of auditory hypersensitivity to motor noises. She feels that living in the desert, where she keeps appliances to a minimum, has given her more stamina. "I'd like to think that Arthur and I are just special cases, that people can stand back and distance themselves from our difficulties. I'd like to think that others won't suffer similar problems. But we know better. The numbers are growing, and no one is listening." She can be reached at (928) 536-4625 or susanm@cybertrails.com. 7 r. Guest Article by Arthur Firstenberg I ivdnvi c7 • D Arthur Firstenberg is a scientist, journalist, and author who is at the center of a worldwide movement to reduce electromagnetic pollution. His book, The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life,was the first to tell the history of electricity from an environmental point of view. Firstenberg is the founder and president of the Cellular Phone Task Force, a nonprofit organization that provides a national support network and global clearinghouse of information about wireless technology's injurious effects. His extensive published writings have focused on topics ranging from Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution to the Global Extent of Bird Armageddon. Hawaii Unites is honored to share the following guest article by a visionary activist with decades of experience advocating for the protection of our natural environment. Hawaii Unites is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Type your email.. _.. © 2024 Hawaii Unites • Privacy• Terms • Collection notice Substack is the home for great culture 1 a-- ' , ` "r$ . Pg # &fi t : � ` : . � JR rJ3 � � r�: -�N{� . I� 3`xa fx r� � r �,�C aw-t,--7.,.. ;,-,:',c::,:lr, . ,„ ,..- .. ' i � T : , a3 l µ 3�, �,. 4 kkmi y �t k A t "� ' w A x t 3Y h` a '. Wit' !' '.' ""t%.,;.k3C.,tyt 0,--- .'. Y'.,,, ,' t� j ,S:'h# x raa 4 �, t F fiL1 tS \>!i asue ,^ Kiwikiu(Maui Parrotbill) ( . . . ... . ._ ..... In mid-October 2019, the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project (MFBRP), in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the State of Hawaii, The Nature Conservancy, the American Bird Conservancy, Pacific Bird Conservation, and San Diego Zoo Global, attached VHF radio transmitters to the legs of 10 kiwikiu before releasing them into the Nakula Natural Area Reserve, on the southern slope of Haleakala volcano. Kiwikiu, a species of honeycreepers found only on Maui, are critically endangered. They are small, weighing less than an ounce. Fewer than 150 of these intelligent, long-lived little birds remain. The birds - some captive-raised and some wild -were released into the forest between October 27 and October 30, 2019. By November 16, every bird was dead except the three who had succeeded in removing or disabling their transmitter. The details are shocking. Seven wild kiwikiu were captured from the Hanawi Natural Area Reserve and -.r transported to aviaries in the Nakula reserve on the morning of October 17 in preparation for release in the proposed new bird sanctuary. One of the birds, number r v‘s All/Inn /n.CIlT WILDS, received his transmitter on October 29. He had been strong and healthy prior to that moment, but as soon as it was attached, he hopped onto the ground and stayed still on the floor. Half an hour later, he tucked his head under his wing. Bird Recovery staff then removed the transmitter, but he did not recover. He continued to sit quietly on his perch and was found dead the next morning. Another wild bird, number WILD10, received her transmitter on October 26. She attacked the harness holding it onto her ferociously, bit it apart, and removed it. It was found on the ground on October 28. Later, on October 28, the Bird Recovery team put a new transmitter on her. On October 29, she was lethargic and not eating. On October 30, she was "fluffed and inactive." She was found dead on the morning of October 31. The other five wild-captured kiwikiu were released into the Nakula reserve with their transmitters intact. WILDS died on November 11. WILD8 died on November 5. WILD11 died on November 16. WILD1 succeeded in removing his transmitter the day after his release, and he was last observed, doing well, on November 24. WILD7 removed his transmitter on November 8, and he was last observed, doing well, on November 12. Five captive-bred kiwikiu were also part of the project. They had all been raised in bird conservation breeding centers on Maui and Hawai`i and were between 5 and 18 years old. Two of these birds died during the two-week preparation for release, although they had thrived for years in the bird conservation centers. Bird number MP022 received his transmitter on October 29. Like WILDS, he hopped onto the ground and stayed on the floor after his transmitter was attached, but unlike WILD9, he rolled onto his side and kept on attacking the transmitter with his beak until finally he got his mandible stuck in the harness. Staff removed the transmitter and released him into the Nakula reserve without it, but he did not recover and died on November 2. Bird number MP026 was released with his transmitter on October 29 and died on November 5. Bird number MP023 was released with his transmitter on October 28 and succeeded in removing his transmitter the following day after being observed "moving on a direct path out of Nakula NAR." Presumably he flew as far away from his captors as he could. Bird number MP027 also survived because he was not released with a transmitter. This bird had had a transmitter attached in a previous trial on April 8, and immediately lay on his back on the floor of his cage and did not move. Seeing this, staff removed his transmitter after only a few minutes. On October 23, they attached a transmitter to him again briefly but A/1//nA I".GAl Fr". decided not to include him in the experiment and returned him to the Maui conservation center where he was still alive and well as of the date of publication of the MFBRP report on March 15, 2021. The writers of the report attributed every kiwikiu death to malaria, despite the facts, stated in the report, that malaria had never before been found in birds in the conservation breeding centers or the Hanawi reserve where all the birds came from; that malaria had never been known to infect more than about 10 or 15 percent of any population of honeycreepers; that malaria does not kill all birds it infects, and honeycreepers are known to develop resistance to it; that other parasites were also found in the birds; and that the average time from first symptoms to death for the birds in this project was "1-2 days" which is not typical of malaria. Two "large, healthy male kiwikiu" died within hours of their first signs of reduced activity. The authors of the study wrote: "[I]t was not clear if these birds could have contracted the disease in Nakula NAR as these birds developed symptoms more rapidly than is typical and died more rapidly than has been reported for other honeycreepers." They went on to speculate: "The necropsies found parasites in multiple organ systems indicating a severe systemic infection that had moved out of the blood stream into other tissues. This could be the result of increased replication of the malaria parasite following some change in the immune system of the birds, such as in response to environmental stress." The environmental stress that they did not consider was the radiation from the VHF transmitters that they attached to the birds. A correspondent in Alberta wrote to me last year: "Prior to me being aware of the dangers I had a tracking collar for my beagle as he was a little bit of an escape artist. Unfortunately after having worn it for a while (3 months or so) with it on only while he was outside he started to develop joint pains and was not walking right. The vet said he had a common beagle issue of his spine starting to compress and cause problems. Right around the same time I was learning of the dangers of all these wireless Pr- devices and got rid of his tracker. He was off pain killers and back to normal in under a month and the issue has never returned." c Nor did the Bird Recovery team consider the radiation from the giant antenna farm towering over the Nakula Natural Area Reserve atop Pu`u `Ula`ula (Red Hill). There are 159 antennas on 20 telecommunication towers on top of that hill blasting the Nakula reserve with cell phone, internet, radio, television, government, police, military and other signals. The Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS) facility is there. The authors of the Bird Recovery report wondered why it is that the wild kiwikiu choose to remain in the small 7,413-acre Hanawi Natural Area Reserve on the windward slope of the volcano and do not stray over the top to the leeward slope where they would be more sheltered from the elements. It is because in the Hanawi reserve the crest of the volcano above them blocks all the radiation from that antenna farm, and cell phones do not even work where they live. Since the failure of the relocation project, efforts to save the kiwikiu from extinction have focused on releasing billions of bacteria-infected mosquitoes onto Maui in a ,( misguided attempt to save the birds by eradicating avian malaria from the island. As of i this writing, a lawsuit against the mosquito project, filed by Hawai`i Unites, is being heard by Hawai`i's Environmental Court. Not only will importing billions of mosquitoes, however altered, into the national park and nature reserves of eastern Maui only make the situation worse for the birds; not only could it backfire and further spread malaria instead of eradicating it; but no solution is possible for this or any other species of rare bird as long as we as a society continue in our denial about the radiation disaster that we are inflicting on our planet from every direction. In 2017, Mark Broomhall wrote a 38-page Report for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization that shines a bright light on why the kiwikiu have retreated to the high elevations of the northern slope of Haleakala volcano in Maui, and what must be done to protect them. The following is from his summary of his years of observation of the birds and wildlife on Mount Nardi in the Nightcap National Park World Heritage Area in Australia. That mountain, on which he lived for 40 years, has telecommunication towers on its summit: "It wasn't until the Analogue Era was drawing to a close, along with the advent of digital A l l e IA A 1,7.L(A I wireless technology in the years 2002 to 2004, that I began to notice a decline in insect diversity and population. This period was at the back-end of a prolonged nationwide drought and there was much talk of global warming. Initially, I attributed the insect decline to these events. I later learnt of`mobile phone pulsed microwave technology' and understood from press reports that this was being installed on Mt. Nardi. This technology is named universally by the industry, the press, and the public at large, as `3G: With this knowledge, I began to suspect that perhaps something else was happening on Mt. Nardi. At the same time,further additions included Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) technology. In the year 2009, enhanced 3G technology was installed and a further 150 pay television channels were added to the tower. Following these additions, I witnessed the exodus of 27 bird species from Mt. Nardi while simultaneously, insect volumes and species variety dropped dramatically. In late 2012 and early 2013, with the construction of a new tower in the complex and the introduction of a 600,000-watt generator, the system was upgraded to what became universally known as `4G.'Immediately after, I witnessed the rapid exodus of a further 49 bird species. From this time, all locally known bat species became scarce, 4 common species of cicada almost disappeared, as well as the once enormous, varied population of moths& butterfly species. Frogs and tadpole populations were drastically reduced; the massive volumes and diverse species of ant populations became uncommon to rare." Broomhall's observations are consistent with thousands of published reports in the scientific literature, as well as a constant stream of informal reports from my colleagues and subscribers that I have been receiving from all over the world for decades - from Spain, from Japan, from Norway, from the Netherlands, from Greece, from everywhere. The essential difference between Mount Nardi and the kiwikiu's current refuge is that an antenna farm irradiates all of Mount Nardi whereas cell phones do not even work in the Hanawi reserve. It is why the kiwikiu have retreated there. If the birds are simply left alone and not given radio transmitters, and if antennas for telecommunications, radar, WiFi, and any other purpose are prohibited on the volcano and in the nature reserves around it, as well as above it from drones as has been experimented with nn.u.e .n.rni F- elsewhere in Hawai`i, the birds will thrive. If not, they will perish. Arthur Firstenberg President, Cellular Phone Task Force Author, The Invisible Rainbow:A History of Electricity and Life P.O. Box 6216 Santa Fe, NM 87502 USA bearstar@fastmail.fm +1 505-471-0129 November 28, 2023 Mahalo to Arthur Firstenberg for researching this topic and sharing his insights. Hawai`i Unites has taken the state to court over their dangerous bacteria-infected mosquito release project on Maui that is further threatening the native honeycreeper C birds. Our Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction hearing is expected to continue early next year. We're also working with the Kaua`i community to assist with legal filings to stop mosquito releases on Kaua`i, and we're raising awareness on all islands about the serious risks of these lab-altered mosquitoes. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to our organization to help us move forward with the work that we're doing. 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