The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Report “An Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies” commissioned by the US State Department was released  by a committee of 19 experts citing “directed, pulsed radiofrequency energy” as “the most plausible mechanism” to explain the mystery illness suffered by  U.S. Embassy personnel. The New York Times describes how the report “provides the most definitive explanation yet of the illness that struck scores of government employees, first at the U.S. Embassy in Havana in 2016, and then in China and other countries. Many of the officers suffered from dizziness, fatigue, headaches, and loss of hearing, memory and balance, and some were forced into permanent retirement.”

The NAS report states that “overall, directed pulsed RF (radio frequency) energy, especially in those with the distinct early manifestations, appears to be the most plausible mechanism in explaining these cases among those that the committee considered.”

In 2018, Dr. Beatrice Golomb shared her published  paper  with the US State Department entitled “Diplomats’ Mystery Illness and Pulsed Radiofrequency/Microwave Radiation  which states, “A tremendous number of physicians and scientists and entities and scientific studies and government reports, in many nations, over many decades, have identified that RF/MW causes symptoms consistent with the spectrum now described for diplomats.” Her paper concludes that “Reported facts appear consistent with radiofrequency microwave  as the source of injury in diplomats in Cuba. Non diplomats citing symptoms from radiofrequency microwave  often with an inciting pulsed-radio frequency microwave exposure, report compatible health conditions.”

In March of 2018, JAMA published a study on the diplomats as they experienced the following symptoms:

The National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine Report Here

Further Media Reports:

‘Sonic attacks’ suffered by US diplomats likely caused by microwave energy, government study says https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/05/health/head-injuries-us-diplomats-government-

Havana syndrome: ‘directed’ radio frequency likely cause of illness – report – The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/06/havana-syndrome-directed-radio-frequency-likely-cause-of-illness

‘Havana Syndrome’ likely caused by directed microwaves – US report – BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55203844

‘Havana Syndrome’ likely caused by microwave energy – NBC https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all

Report Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ as Likely Source of Mystery Illnesses That Hit Diplomats and Spies – NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/business/economy/havana-syndrome-microwave-attack.html

Michael Carlberg, Tarmo Koppel, Lena K. Hedendahl and Lennart Hardell

1 The Environment and Cancer Research Foundation, Studievägen 35, SE 702 17 Örebro, Sweden;lenahedendahl@telia.com (L.K.H.); lennart.hardell@environmentandcancer.com (L.H.)

2 School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, SOC353 Ehitajate Tee 5,19086 Tallinn, Estonia; tarmo.koppel@taltech.ee

*Correspondence: michael.carlberg@environmentandcancer.com

Received: 29 October 2020; Accepted: 5 December 2020; Published: 7 December 2020

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/23/9129

EXTRACT

Abstract: The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the World Health Organization(WHO) categorized in 2011 radiofrequency (RF) as a possible human carcinogen, Group 2B. During use of the handheld wireless phone, especially the smartphone, the thyroid gland is a target organ.During the 21st century, the incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing in many countries. We used the Swedish Cancer Register to study trends from 1970 to 2017. During that time period, the incidence increased statistically significantly in women with average annual percentage change (AAPC)+2.13%,95% confidence interval (CI)+1.43,+2.83%. The increase was especially pronounced during 2010–2017with annual percentage change (APC)+9.65%, 95% CI+6.68,+12.71%. In men, AAPC increased during 1970–2017 with+1.49%, 95% CI+0.71,+2.28%. Highest increase was found for the time period 2001–2017 with APC+5.26%, 95% CI+4.05,+6.49%. Similar results were found for all Nordic countries based on NORDCAN 1970–2016 with APC+5.83%, 95% CI+4.56,+7.12 in women from2006 to 2016 and APC+5.48%, 95% CI+3.92,+7.06% in men from 2005 to 2016. According to the Swedish Cancer Register, the increasing incidence was similar for tumors≤4 cm as for tumors>4 cm,indicating that the increase cannot be explained by over diagnosis. These results are in agreement with recent results on increased thyroid cancer risk associated with the use of mobile phones. We postulate that RF radiation is a causative factor for the increasing thyroid cancer incidence.

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Submission to The Joint Committee on Disability Matters, Houses of the Oireachtas

12^th November 2020

As stated in the accompanying letter, the expertise of Electromagnetic Sense Ireland is based on real life experience, and many years of study and knowledge regarding the functional/environmental impairment Microwave Sickness/Electrohypersensitivity (EHS).  Dating back to its foundation as IERVN (Irish Electromagnetic Radiation Victims Network), ES-Ireland is a voluntary non-profit group comprised mainly of people suffering adverse health effects from Electromagnetic/Radiofrequency – WiFi (EMF/RF/WiFi) and in particular from pulsed Radiofrequency microwave emissions.  The website https://es-ireland.com is dedicated to creating awareness regarding the implications of this non-ionising radiation for the health of humans, wildlife and the environment based mainly on the  European Council Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 1815 (2011) The Potential Dangers of Electromagnetic Fields and Their Effect on the Environment. https://pace.coe.int/en/files/17994/html

Electrohypersensitivity (EHS) or electrosensitivity (ES) has been a health issue now for at least four decades.  A prime example of independent research on this issue is contained within the report BioInitiative: A Rationale for a Biologically-Based Public Exposure Standards for Electromagnetic Fields 2012 (Summary for the Public (2014 Supplement)). https://bioinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sec01_2012_summary_for_public.pdf  This report produced by the BionItiative Working Group, an international collaboration of prestigious scientists and public health experts provides a summary of key scientific evidence, including EHS, from a total of 3,800 peer-reviewed research papers.   The daily lives of those who are actually suffering is seldom expressed and we take this opportunity to attempt a description of that.

The Daily Lives of those with Microwave Sickness/Electrohypersensitivity

People who are EHS are affected in different ways and to different extents but main effects have been identified as: severe crippling headaches, ‘brain fog’/loss of concentration, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, nose bleeds, ‘microwave hearing’, muscle tingling/sensation of crawling skin, abdominal cramps/digestive problems, heightened sensitivity to noise/light/chemicals, palpitations/arrhythmias, limb currents/ shooting pain, ‘chest tightness’, burning of skin, hand and leg dysfunction, immune problems, insomnia/sleep disruption.  Increased likelihood of long-term effects:  Cancer, neurological diseases, depression, significantly decreased sperm counts/genetic effects such as male sterility, miscarriage and birth defects.  (BioInitiative Report – Conclusions 2012).  In the year 2000 such symptoms were identified in the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) Code of Diagnoses, version 10 (ICD-10; R68.8/now W90) and while some subjective symptoms may be treated by a medical physician the underlying cause still remains only the toxic environment.

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) and World Health Organization: A. International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) B. International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) http://www.es-uk.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/06.4-Disability-ICD-10-codes-ICF-Func.Disab-2018.pdf

Through experience and observation sufferers learn that being away from sources of EMF/RF/WiFi gives them relief and in this way they self-diagnose in the absence of any expertise or medical professionals trained in this subject.

The main issue for sufferers lies in an inaccessible environment associated with unsustainable levels of EMF both within and outside of their homes. Although effects are accumulative, those with less severe symptoms can initially manage their lives by taking measures to shield rooms with specialist paint and materials and/or their bodies with protective clothing etc – at great expense to themselves. For others, symptoms become so severe that they have no option but to move house, others move from place to place continuously, some resort to living in sheds; sleeping in cars, avoid public/social service providers, hospitals, schools etc. Some become prisoners in their own homes.  Needs such as shopping, attending the doctor, using public transport, use of social services etc., become almost impossible. At the severe stage there is an inability to continue participating in society or the social activities considered necessary for health and wellbeing. The daily toil of survival is a 24/7/365 operation. Some personal accounts are accessible on our website at  https://es-ireland.com/ehs-stories/

In 1998 and 2005 a group of EHS sufferers made presentations before Oireachtas Committees as noted in the Joint Committee on Public Enterprise and Transport report on Non-ionising Microwave Radiation Emissions from Communications Masts (1998) http://archive.oireachtas.ie/1998/REPORT_26111998_0.html

and the Joint Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Report on Non-ionising Radiation from Mobile Phone Handsets and Masts (2005). http://archive.oireachtas.ie/2005/REPORT_20050600_2.html

The suffering of these victims was, and continues to be, for those who have survived, completely ignored.

One of the most debilitating symptoms of EHS i.e. ‘microwave hearing’ is caused by the absorption of continuous microwave radiation (Wi-Fi/3G/4G/ 5G) on the brain, resulting in a ‘thermoelastic wave of acoustic pressure’ that travels to the inner ear (Lin & Wang).  This tortuous effect is added to by the continuous resonance from telecommunication mast emissions and their cooling equipment. The European Council Recommendations 1999/519/EC on the limitation of exposure of the general public to EMF (0Hz to 300 GHz) have recommended limits for pulse duration in the frequency range 0.3 to 10 GHz and for localised exposure of the head, ‘in order to limit and avoid auditory effects.’  The phenomenon of ‘microwave hearing’ was studied and published in the Journal of Applied Physiology as far back as July 1962 by Allan Frey. Recommended reading: Auditory Perception of Radio-frequency Electromagnetic Fields by Chung-Kwang Chou and Arthur W. Guy – Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Vol 71 (6): 1321 – 1334, June 1982 (published online 1998).  https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org

For many, the notion of a percentage of the public being affected to such an extent from modern technology is unbelievable.  However, other real evidence comes from the Insurance Industry, which withholds cover for risks linked to EMF/RF-WiFi. Insurance Company specialists in Emerging Risks have warned the insurance industry about the impact of potential risks from the ‘unforeseen consequences of electromagnetic fields.’ ‘The Electromagnetic Fields Exclusion (Exclusion 32) is now a General Insurance Exclusion applied across the market as standard.’ Therefore liability coverage for claims ‘Directly or indirectly arising out of, resulting from or contributed to by electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetism, radio waves or noise’ has now been excluded from public liability policies. https://www.jrseco.com/lloyds-insurance-company-does-not-cover-health-damage-caused-byelectromagnetic-radiation/

Recommendations to the Committee

Recognition of EHS as an environmental impairment

EHS needs to be officially recognised as an environmental impairment/functional impairment and as a disability in order to enable access to necessary resources and to live an equal life in a society based upon equality as per the E.U. Human Rights Act and the U.N. Convention on Human Rights for People with Disabilities. An action plan needs to be drawn up which will enable citizens who are electro-sensitive to live, socialise and work on an equal basis with others

Establishment of EHS Hotline

The Introduction of a ‘hotline’ for EHS sufferers where a registry could be kept that would give some indication as to the numbers, geographical areas and scale of effects. This should also provide access to ‘experts’ including e.g. building biologists, bio-physicists and engineers who have the ability, skills and knowledge needed to measure EMF pollution in the homes of sufferers and suggest protective steps, with resources provided by the State.

Creation of White (EMF Free) Zones

Sufficient evidence already exists regarding adverse health effects of EMF to warrant immediate intervention that could commence with the provision of ‘white zones’ i.e. an area free of EMF/RF-WiFi in each county and in public places such as libraries, public transport, hospitals etc.

Public Participation in Decision-Making and Information Campaigns

One of the consistent points made by the E.U., and also referred to in the Aarhus Convention, ratified by Ireland in 2012, is that information regarding the risks associated with EMF should be provided to the public and also that public participation in decision-making regarding the environment should be made a priority. The dangers to the public are not being given sufficient prominence. Direct public participation in the decision-making process is a Constitutional right.

Reduction of Electrosmog in Wireless Local Networks

A system may be available that would assist in the reduction of electrosmog from wireless local area networks designed to reduce the risk of damage to health. Swisscom’s patent application confirms adverse health effects and also confirms that health destruction is ‘not dependent upon temperature increases. This system offers an initial solution to a difficult situation.

Ref: WIPO Patentscope, 1. (W02004075583) Reduction of Electrosmog in Wireless Local Networks.   https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf;jsessionid

Other Supporting Information: 

1. In 2011 the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified EMF as Group 2B, a possible human carcinogen (page 419), (Vol 102)

Press Release: https://www.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pr208_E.pdf

2. The National Toxicology Program (NTP) (USA), which, under the National Institutes of Health, have completed the largest ever animal study on cell phone radiation and cancer. The results were consistent with findings in humans of increased risk of glioma and acoustic neuroma (cancers of the brain) and of malignant schwannomas – cancer of the heart (a rare cancer), as well as DNA damage. These effects occurred even within threshold levels currently allowable. The NTP study has now (2018) been peer-reviewed and accepted by independent experts.   https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/topics/cellphones/index.html

3. The second recent study is a corresponding large Animal Study on Base Station/Cell Tower Radiofrequency Radiation undertaken by the Ramazzini Institute (Italy). The importance of the key conclusions of this study is that they are consistent with and therefore reinforce the findings of the National Toxicology Program. Key findings attest to an increase in the incidence of glioma, acoustic neuromas (cancers of the brain) and rare malignant tumours such as schwannomas of the heart.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935118300367

4. The recent review by Professor Martin Pall, a winner of eight international awards, entitled Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health, and published in Environmental Research 164 (2018) 405 – 416 considers repeated studies on Wi- Fi and other microwave frequency EMFs. He identifies seven effects that are consistently accepted as proven in 10 to 16 studies and which can therefore be scientifically referred to as established. These established effects are oxidative stress, sperm/testicular damage, neuropsychiatric effects including EEG changes, apoptosis, cellular DNA damage, endocrine changes and calcium overload. The review informs that EMF effects are often cumulative and irreversible, and that EMFs may impact young people more than adults.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29573716/

Thank you again for this opportunity,

Ethna Monks

Member of Electromagnetic Sense Ireland, (ES-Ireland), https://es-ireland.com

 Additional Information

 Some ES-Ireland submissions:

January 2016 United Nations Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD) – on rights to inclusive education, article 24 https://es-ireland.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/un-response-2016.pdf

October 2019 United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee.  Response to Questions on New and Emerging Digital Technology and Human Rights.

https://es-ireland.com/submission-to-un-human-rights-council-october-2019/

Open Submission (June 2018) to Government Departments and Agencies regarding Public Health and Wellbeing Protection in Ireland in respect of Electromagnetic Fields – Request for a Public Inquiry on behalf of the public, especially children and vulnerable groups.

Link: https://es-ireland.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/jun18submissiongovtem.pdf

Electrohypersensitivity: a functional impairment due to an inaccessible environment Professor Olle Johansson   REV ENVIRON HEALTH:  2015;30(4):311-21.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26613327/

ELECTROMAGNETIC  RADIATION AND HEALTH FOR CHILDREN 2013 PRESENTATION SUMMARY:

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity A Summary by Dr Erica Mallery-Blythe December 2014 WORKING DRAFT Version 1

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1070795887708/Dr_Erica_Mallery-Blythe_EHS_A_Summary_Working_Draft_Version_1_Dec_2014_for_EESC_Brussels_(3)%20(1).pdf

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and Human Rights    Commentary to the EU Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

https://es-ireland.com/2014/12/12/ehs-human-rights-dr-isaac-jamieson-2014/

BEES, BIRDS AND MANKIND – Destroying Nature by ‘Electrosmog’

Ulrich Warnke

Effects of Wireless Communication Technologies

A Brochure Series by the Competence Initiative for the Protection of Humanity,

Environment and Democracy

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/7521097894.pdf

2020 Consensus Statement of UK and International Medical and Scientific Experts and Practitioners on Health Effects of Non-Ionising Radiation (NIR) Press Release: Embargoed until 10/11/2020

https://phiremedical.org/2020-nir-consensus-statement-read/

PHIRE Medical UK Press Release Nov 2020 on Non-Ionising Radiation

https://phiremedical.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Press-Release-2020-Non-Ionising-Radiation-Consensus-Statement.pdf

Source Article: https://www.emfsa.co.za  June 2020

Eric van Rongen “I’m the scientist who sets the global guidelines on 5G safety. Take it from me: 5G doesn’t cause cancer or spread COVID-19.” https://www.businessinsider.com/scientist-sets-guidelines-5g-safety-conspiracy-theories-debunked-2020-6?IR=T

Eric van Rongen:

“Contrary to many 5G conspiracy theories, phone radiation heats the human body the equivalent of having a cup of hot tea every two hours.”

“The science is really straightforward — there’s simply no solid evidence that anything other than a small amount of body heating may result from exposure to 5G radiofrequency fields.”

Andrew Goldsworthy (Biologist) responds to ICNIRP’s Eric van Rongen’s post featured above:

There are two main mechanisms by which non-ionising radiation such as that from cell-phones can damage living organisms. One is the heating effect and the other is the effect of low-frequency modulation.

1 The heating effect.

We cannot assume that the heating effect is uniformly distributed through living cells. The cells themselves are highly conductive, whereas the cell membranes have a very high resistance. Therefore, for any given current flowing through a tissue, nearly all of the heat will be generated in the cell membranes. Since these membranes constitute only about one thousandth of the total diameter of a typical cell and virtually all of the heat is being generated in them, the ICNIRP Guidelines, which are based on the assumption that cells and tissues are uniformly conductive, are approximately one thousand times too high.

2 The effect of modulation.

Living cell membranes are electrically non-linear and have a voltage across them of approximately 70mV. They are pierced by countless ion channels that behave like electrically biased Schottky diodes capable of rectifying and so demodulating any alternating signal (including microwave frequencies) with the demodulated low frequency components appearing between the inside and outside of the cell. This is what does most of the damage and here is why:

The cell membrane is mainly made of a lipid bilayer only about 10nM thick, with proteins such as ion channels “floating” in it. The membrane itself is negatively charged because it has outwardly directed negatively charged phosphate groups and is normally stabilised by divalent positive calcium and magnesium ions that cross-link them. But the demodulated cell-phone signal makes the negative membrane and its protective divalent ions move in opposite directions. This destabilizes the membrane and makes it more likely to perforate and collapse the voltage gradient across it. This, in turn, opens voltage-gated calcium ion channels in the membrane that let huge numbers of calcium ions into the cell down a massive 10,000:1 electrochemical gradient.

In nature, this increase in the internal calcium concentration is taken as an indicator to the cell that its membrane (and by implication, the whole cell) has been damaged and sets in train a series of repair mechanisms, which uses a great deal of metabolic energy. If it succeeds, the cell is repaired, if not, the cell dies, but either way a great deal of energy is used. This may in large part explain the chronic fatigue syndrome that was found in early mobile phone users (Yuppie flu) and is now much more widespread in the community due to our constant exposure to cordless phones, their base stations, WiFi and all the other wireless devices that current ICNIRP guidelines regard as safe.

Lastly, the relationship between 5G and COVID-19.

We cannot assume that because the 5G radiation is mainly absorbed by the skin that it cannot damage the rest of our bodies. If the energy of the radiation is disproportionately absorbed by the skin, then the damage to the skin and the blood and lymph circulating through it will also be disproportionately large. The effects of 5G on lymphocytes could be particularly damaging. They too will have their energy drained by the calcium influx caused by the radiation, have less to spare to generate their protective antibodies and so make the immune system less efficient. So, I guess you could say that 5G can promote the spread of COVID-19. That said, most other forms of information carrying (i.e.modulated) frequencies may be even more dangerous, particularly WiFi with its extremely low frequency (10Hz) beacon signal being possibly the most dangerous.

Dr Andrew Goldsworthy, Lecturer and Biological Safety Officer (retired) Imperial College London.

A new study published on November 2, 2020 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that heavier cell phone use (which corresponds to about 17 minutes of use per day over a 10 year period), is linked to an increased risk of tumor development in users.

Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/21/8079/htm

24 October 2020

EXCERPT:

To: His Excellency António Guterres, His ExcellencyTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,andOtherEsteemed UN and WHO Officials:

The subject of my letter: The serious truth about wireless 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G needs to be urgently heeded -before the rollout of 5G results inan increase in the permittedlevels of electromagnetic microwave radiation across the planet.

My name is Olle Johansson, and I am an associate professor, retired from the world-famous Karolinska Institute and the equally famous Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, both with their close associations to the Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry and Physics, and I am submitting this testimony because I understand that you at present might be concerned about the fast deployment of 5G wireless systems both internationally as well as locally, without adequate sharing of information with the public.

I have been contacted before by many, many residents of our beautiful countries around the planet in connection with the installation of smart meters,proposed cell tower installations, wireless systems near and in schools,hospitals,residential areas, health effects of wireless baby alarms, tablets, and DECT phones, and more. The letters I have received can not be overlooked or disregarded.

You may also be aware that I have recently (November 5, 2019) presented my views at the Italian Parliament at a meeting organized by Mr. Maurizio Martucci, Mr. Giorgio Cinciripini, and others; and so I have done several times before; had it not been for the coronavirus/COVID-19 worldwide lockdown I would have visited many countries around the planet already this last Winter, Spring, Summer, and now Autumn.

For many years I have been studying the health effects of wireless gadgets, such as cellphones, WIFi, and similar. My research decades ago was instrumental to determine the old CRT computer monitors were biologically harmful and that’s why we switched them out for the less impactful flat-screen monitors. I also played a similar role in the protection of pregnant women in front of computers.I would point out that children, generally speaking, are more vulnerable to these kinds of radiation exposures.

Wireless communication is now being implemented in our daily life in a very fast way. At the same time, it is becoming more and more obvious that exposure to electromagnetic fields may result in highly unwanted health effects. This has been demonstrated in a very large number of studies and includes cellular DNA-damage (which may lead to the initiation of cancer as well as mutations that carry down generations), disruptions and alterations of cellular unctions like increases in intracellular stimulatory pathways and calcium handling, disruption of tissue structures like the blood-brain barrier (which may allow toxins to enter the brain), impact on the vessel and immune functions, and loss of fertility. It should be noted that we are not the only species in jeopardy, practically all animals, plants, and bacteria may be at stake. For the latter,Taheri et al (2017) have demonstrated that the exposure to 900 MHz GSM mobile phone radiation and 2.4 GHz radiofrequency radiation emitted from common Wi-Fi routers made Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli resistant to different antibiotics. To say this finding is “scary” is a classical English understatement.

Because the effects are reproducibly observed and links to pathology can not be excluded, the Precautionary Principle should be in force in the implementation of this new technology within the society. Therefore, policymakers immediately should strictly control exposure by defining biologically-based maximal exposure guidelines also taking into account long-term, non-thermal effects, and including especially vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, the ill, the genetically and/or immunologically challenged, children and foetuses, and persons with the functional impairment electrohypersensitivity (which in Sweden is a fully recognized functional impairment, and therefore receives an annual governmental disability subsidy).

So, in essence, science is providing ever more convincing evidence that the radiation emitted by our wireless telecommunications systems can affect biological systems including humans and wildlife. These biological effects are acting even at very low exposure levels.

The consequences on health and environment can be all the more serious because:

-exposure is ubiquitous, repeated and/or prolonged,-radiation from wireless technologies is modulated, pulsed, polarized,

-some individuals may be more vulnerable (foetuses, children, sick patients,…), and/or the effects being much more prolonged (foetuses, children),

-exposure is combined with other pollutants (e.g. chemical pollutants).

Damages on health and environment are already noticeable at exposure levels similar to those that are currently met across the planet.

It is clearly not enough just to ensure exposure levels are below WHO recommended levels. WHO recommendations are designed to protect cells from excessive temperature increase successive to a maximal 30 minutes exposure to radiofrequency/microwave radiations. The bases for these recommendations were established in the late 1990s and have not been revised since then, even though:

-wireless technologies have developed very rapidly over the past 20 years,

-exposure pattern has completely changed (ubiquitous, repeated, prolonged exposure, exposure of children, foetuses, etc.)

-considerable scientific progress has been made in the identification of biological and health effects…

Contd/..

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Source Article : INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES

by Theodora Scarato  5/9/20

Most people are unaware of the scientific call to reduce wireless exposures or they dismiss it outright as lacking a scientific basis. However, there is a large body of peer-reviewed and published research indicating cell phone and wireless radiation poses serious threats to children’s health in Europe and other parts of the world. From memory damage in teens, to sperm damage, to cancer in animals and humans, the scientific evidence grows every day.   

Russian experts from the Ministry of Health and the Russian National Committee for Protection Against Non-ionizing Radiation have just released new recommendations for children now moving to online learning at home on computers. They recommend limiting overall screen time, disinfecting the keyboard and using wired rather than Wi-Fi. They also warn against using smartphones for educational purposes. 

In the United States, a Harvard investigation explains how wireless companies are using the same tactics as Big Tobacco. We have to follow the money.  As the history of lead, asbestos and tobacco teaches us, it could take years for protective policy. Children can’t wait decades. 

Worldwide schools and governments are taking action to reduce levels of wireless in classrooms. Some examples:

• France has banned Wi-Fi in kindergarten and restricts Wi-Fi in school by having the wireless off as the default setting. Teachers have wired (not wireless) computers for internet access. The country launched public health initiatives on how to reduce cell phone radiation exposure years ago. 
• Israel banned Wi-Fi in nursery schools, restricts Wi-Fi in elementary schools, banned cell phones in classrooms and has a national agency educating citizens on how to reduce cell phone radiation. 
• Cyprus also has removed Wi-Fi from elementary classrooms and has a strong public awareness campaign educating parents, teenagers and pregnant women. 
• Belgium banned cell phones manufactured for young children. 
• Mayors have long called for wired networks to replace Wi-Fi networks in schools in cities such as Borgofranco d’Ivrea, Italy, and Haifa, Israel. 
• French Polynesia also removed Wi-Fi from nursery schools and like Cyprus, launched a major public health campaign. 

In 2011, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) passed Resolution 1815 “The Potential Dangers of Electromagnetic Fields and Their Effect on the Environment” which calls on European governments to “take all reasonable measures” to reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields “particularly the exposure to children and young people who seem to be most at risk from head tumours…and particularly in schools and classrooms, give preference to wired Internet connections, and strictly regulate the use of mobile phones by school children on school premises.”     

In Spain, the Parliament of Navarre voted to adhere to PACE Resolution 1815 urging the Spanish government to implement the recommendations to apply the precautionary principle. Since 2012, several municipalities in Spain have made similar requests.

In the United States, laws are launching investigations into wireless exposures in schools, and many school districts are taking steps towards safer technology. For example:

• In 2019, Oregon passed a bill, SB283, which directs the Oregon Health Authority to review peer-reviewed, independently funded scientific studies of health effects of exposure to microwave radiation, particularly school exposures. 
• In 2017, the Maryland State Children’s Environmental Health And Protection Advisory Council issued first-ever state recommendations for reducing wireless exposure in schools by providing wired—rather than wireless—internet connections.
• Onteora School District, and Ashland, Massachusetts, have “Best Practices” to turn the Wi-Fi off when not in use and keep devices away from the body posted in every classroom. 
• Several school districts like Petaluma, California, and Montgomery County, Maryland, have policies that tablets and iPads should be on tables (not laps) prompted by parents raising the health issue of Wi-Fi in school.
• The Los Angeles school district prohibits school cell towers and has set a wireless exposure limit at 10,000 times lower than FCC limits recognizing the existence of biological effects. 
• The Massachusetts Breast Cancer Association has released an educational curriculum for high school students. 

Many schools are now test beds for 5G equipment. Companies donate the equipment to under-resourced schools with large fanfare. These children are the guinea pigs. School children are holding 5G virtual reality devices right up to their eyes despite research showing high absorption into brain and eye tissue from these devices. 

America’s largest group of pediatricians, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends families reduce cellphone radiation. They have written letters to the U.S. government repeatedly calling on them to update their laws to protect children and pregnant women because “children are more vulnerable.”  

So what should we do? 

Indeed, it is quite a predicament. On the one hand, we are in an unprecedented situation and safe technology options are not always available. Our children need to learn right? Yet there is no safe level of this radiation identified and it simply would not make sense to increase exposure to a type of radiation that could harm our children. 

What can parents do?

They can educate themselves about how to reduce exposure and talk to friends and family. There are a lot of ways to reduce cell phone and wireless exposure at home. 

They can contact school officials and ask that they provide safe non-wireless technology options for all. This would mean ethernet cords and adapters for devices that do not have ethernet ports so children can hook their computers up without Wi-Fi. 

They can set up a safe computer workstation at home with wired – not wireless- connections and remember to keep the devices always on a table.

They should be aware that video and streaming videos wirelessly are situations where radiation levels can peak. 

Many hands make light work and this issue is quite the challenge. However, parents are unstoppable when it comes to the health of their children. Our children deserve safe technology. 

Theodora Scarato is Executive Director of EHTrust.org

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