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18 March 2024

United States: NIH probe of ‘Havana syndrome’ finds no sign of brain injuries

NIH probe of ‘Havana syndrome’ finds no sign of brain injuries  
By Joel Achenbach and Shane Harris, Washington Post, March 18, 2024

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The four-year study comes amid ongoing conjectures about ‘targeted attacks’ with pulsed-energy weapons

Repeated scans of patients suffering from the mysterious ailment commonly known as “Havana syndrome” found no significant evidence of brain injury, according to an ongoing investigation by the National Institutes of Health.

A man pushes a wheelbarrow near the U.S. Embassy in Havana, where government employees were working when they mysteriously became ill. (Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images)

Two studies, published Monday in JAMA, found few significant differences in a range of cognitive and physical tests among more than 80 patients who had been stationed in Cuba, Austria, China and other locations compared with a control group of people with similar job descriptions.

15 March 2024

Wireless Radiation Health Effects Compilation Cell Towers and Cell Phones and Wi Fi

Excellent 20-minute video

Wireless Radiation Health Effects Compilation Cell Towers and Cell Phones and Wi Fi
Environmental Health Trust, 14 March 2024

Hundreds of scientists, doctors and public health experts recommend the public reduce exposure to wireless radiation to mitigate risk due to the growing scientific evidence of harm.

09 March 2024

Switzerland: Millimeter waves: uncertain need and risk

Physicians for the Environment are sounding the alarm about the desire of the Swiss government, operators and Comcom to introduce millimeter-wave 5G in Switzerland.

Millimeter waves: uncertain need and risk
by Pascal Sigg, infosperber.ch, March 8, 2024 - Translation DeepL 

The Federal Council and operators want higher cell phone frequencies soon. A doctors' organization is "very worried".


Will adaptive antennas soon be able to use higher frequencies in Switzerland? Antenna in the canton of Zurich © SRF Kassensturz

New business, better Internet coverage in the countryside and more money in the state coffers. These are the reasons why the Federal Council wants to allocate new high frequencies for mobile telephony in the 6 GHz, 26 GHz and 40 GHz bands - known as millimeter waves. These frequencies would enable the introduction of 5G technology in our country. At present, this technology only operates in Switzerland on a maximum of 3.5 GHz.

As with the allocation of the first 5G frequencies four years ago, the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) recently organized a public consultation procedure. This time, however, the only focus was on the needs of potential operators and users.

05 March 2024

36 New Papers on Electromagnetic Fields and Biology or HealthElectromagnetic Radiation Safety, 4 March 2024

36 New Papers on Electromagnetic Fields and Biology or Health

Dr. Joel Moscowitz, University of California Berkeley, has been circulating abstracts of newly-published scientific papers on radio frequency and other non-ionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF) monthly since 2016. The complete collection of these papers contains more than 2,000 abstracts with links to the papers. Several hundred EMF scientists around the world receive these updates.

To download Volume 3 which contains abstracts of papers published in 2024 (including the new papers listed below) click on the following link (45 page pdf): https://bit.ly/EMFstudies03-2024


To download Volume 2 which contains abstracts of papers published from 2021 through 2023 click on the following link (867 page pdf): https://bit.ly/EMFStudies-2021-2023

To download Volume 1 which contains abstracts of papers published from 2016 through 2020 click on the following link (875 page pdf): https://bit.ly/EMFStudies-2016-2020


The abstracts for recently published papers appear below.

 

01 March 2024

No budget in Switzerland to protect people’s health from dangerous phones?

No budget in Switzerland to protect people’s health from dangerous phones?
By : Phonegate Team • 27 Feb 2024

Between 2012 and today, the sale of radio frequencies (4G, 5G) alone has brought in almost CHF 1.4 billion for the Federal Council.


Despite the warnings raised in 2018 and again in 2019 by several members of Parliament (interpellations 19.3180 and 19.4496), and again in 2023 with motion 23.4244), the Swiss authorities remain silent. Several press articles, such as those in the “Beobachter” and the “Tagesanzeiger”, warned of the “Phonegate affair”, yet the Federal Council justified its inaction in protecting the health and safety of millions of cell phone users on the grounds of its “financial situation”:


“The Federal Council recognizes that there is indeed a gap in implementation, that there is no market surveillance for these products regarding their health impacts due to NIR. However, carrying out these tasks would require human and financial resources. Based on the cost/benefit analysis, and given the Confederation’s financial situation, the required resources could not be made available. The Federal Council therefore agrees to dispense with market surveillance for the time being, and therefore proposes to reject this motion.”

28 February 2024

Woman Living Near Cell Tower Diagnosed With 51 Strokes

Exclusive: Woman Living Near Cell Tower Diagnosed With 51 Strokes
By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., childrenshealthdefense.org, 26 Feb. 2024, updated 27 Feb. 2024

In an interview with The Defender, Marcia Haller detailed how her life dramatically changed when a cell tower 900 feet from her home was “upgraded.” Haller notified the telecom companies operating the tower that she plans to sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act.


In 2007, Marcia and Jason Haller — high school sweethearts who met in Duluth, Minnesota — bought their dream property north of Duluth to peacefully live close to nature and Marcia’s family.

Little did they know then that American Towers, AT&T and T-Mobile would soon build a cell tower just 900 feet from their home — a tower that would later forever change Marcia’s life as she knew it.

Nearly immediately after the cell tower was “upgraded” in 2019, Marcia became disabled from the intense levels of radiofrequency (RF) radiation emitted by the tower.

Since then, she has suffered 51 strokes, vision loss, hearing loss, headaches, sleep disruption, chronic fatigue and cognitive impairment. She experiences ongoing issues with balance, orientation and mobility.

25 February 2024

Barbados: US group renowned for cell tower opposition backs residents

US group renowned for cell tower opposition backs residents
by Emmanuel Joseph, barbadostoday.bb, February 24, 2024

A St James village’s battle to rid itself of a recently erected cell phone tower in its midst notched up Friday as it enlisted the support of an American campaign group that argues cell phones, wireless broadband and other high-frequency radio signals pose a health risk.

The non-profit Environmental Health Trust (EHT), based in the northern American state of Wyoming has emerged to back the people of Olive Lodge, Holders Hill, who are planning to ask the High Court to issue an injunction to block any further work and eventually have the structure removed. The tower was erected around mid-January by telecommunications firm Digicel. The community was told the tower was temporary.

23 February 2024

Switzerland: 5G critics file complaints in 127 Bernese municipalities

5G critics file complaints in 127 Bernese municipalities
derbund.ch, 20 February 2024 - auto-translation

386 antennas are being used illegally, claim two associations and one company. And are therefore filing complaints with the building police everywhere.


One of the offending installations: the antenna on the roof of the Berner Zeitung and "Bund" newspapers. Photo: Raphael Moser

In the canton of Bern, 127 municipalities where 5G mobile phone antennas are located are facing complaints from the building police. The complaints were submitted by the WIR and Gigaherz associations, which are critical of mobile communications, and Laubscher plannetzwerk GmbH from Büren an der Aare.

They have been warning about radiation exposure from mobile phone antennas for some time. They are now targeting those antennas where the transmission power has been increased without a planning application or public publication. This was announced by the three organizations on Tuesday.

22 February 2024

Applying the Precautionary Principle to Wireless Technology: Policy Dilemmas and Systemic Risks

Applying the Precautionary Principle to Wireless Technology: Policy Dilemmas and Systemic Risks

Paul Ben IshaiHillel Z. BaldwinLinda S. BirnbaumTom ButlerKent ChamberlinDevra L. Davis, show all
Pages 5-18 | Published online: 20 Feb 2024
Cite this article
https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2024.2293631

Current policies in the United States and Europe regarding wireless radiation rest on an outdated assump­tion that the sole adverse impact to be avoided is acute heating of biological tissues.Footnote1 These policies ignore substantial evi­dence of chronic impacts that wir­eless radiofrequency radiation (RFR) can have on public health and the broader environmental consequences. In this article, we briefly review the early history of policy development on RFR, provide evidence of significant adverse nonthermal chronic impacts from exposures that are not considered in current standards, and make the case for imp­le­menting the precautionary pri­nciple to protect public health and the environment. As with most environmental health hazards, the consequences of RFR are especially important to the fetus and children, as they will incur a lifetime of exposures that is without precedent. We thus argue for the adoption of the precautionary principle to reduce chronic, societal-level risks from exposures.

20 February 2024

DNA and Developmental Damage from Cell Towers on the Greek Island of Samos: Effects on Insects, Flowers and Vegetables

DNA and Developmental Damage from Cell Towers on the Greek Island of Samos: Effects on Insects, Flowers and Vegetables
by Diana Kordas, ED.M., M.A. February 8, 2024; hyperlinked version posted by Safe Tech International Feb. 12, 2024 by permission.

“…cells with irreparably damaged genomic DNA will result in cell senescence, cell death, cancer or mutated offspring, depending on cell type and specific biological/environmental conditions.” Panagopoulos et al., 2021 1

Introduction


A recent paper, ‘Human‑made electromagnetic fields: Ion forced‑oscillation and voltage‑gated ion channel dysfunction, oxidative stress and DNA damage (Review) published in the International Journal of Oncology by biophysicist Dimitris J. Panagopoulos et. al. states unequivocally that electromagnetic radiation from wireless technology damages DNA. This leads to infertility, sterility, mutations and extinctions, and it explains the loss of biodiversity that we are currently experiencing on this planet.