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Biology and Medicine. The Microwave Syndrome: A
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Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine (formerly Electro- and
Magnetobiology)
Volume 22, Issue 2, (2003)
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The Microwave Syndrome: A Preliminary Study in Spain
Enrique A. Navarro *Corresponding
J. Segura 1
M. Portolés 2
Claudio Gómez-Perretta de Mateo 2
1 Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universitat de València,
46100,
Burjassot, València, Spain
2 Centro de Investigación, Hospital Universitario LA FE 46009,
València,
Spain
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The Microwave Syndrome: A Preliminary Study in Spain
Enrique A. Navarro 1, Jaume Segura 1, Manuel Portolés 2, and
Claudio
Gómez-Perretta de Mateo 2
1 Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universitat de València,
46100,
Burjassot, València, Spain
2 Centro de Investigación, Hospital Universitario LA FE, 46009,
València, Spain
Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine (formerly Electro- and
Magnetobiology)
Volume 22, Issue 2, (2003): 161 - 169
Online Published: 09/08/2003 September
Print Published: 10/01/2003 October
Abstract
A health survey was carried out in Murcia, Spain, in the vicinity
of a
Cellular Phone Base Station working in DCS-1800 MHz. This survey
contained health items related to "microwave sickness" or "RF
syndrome."
The microwave power density was measured at the respondents'
homes.
Statistical analysis showed significant correlation between
the declared
severity of the symptoms and the measured power density. The
separation
of respondents into two different exposure groups also showed
an
increase of the declared severity in the group with the higher
exposure.
Keywords
Public health, Cellular phone, Base stations, Microwave sickness
Introduction
The hypothesis that radiofrequency (RF) exposure might produce
health
damage has been analyzed mainly from several epidemiological
studies.
Insomnia, cancer, leukemia in children, and brain tumors are
the
clinical entities more frequently described (Dolk et al., 1997;
Hocking
et al., 1996; Maskarinec et al., 1994; Minder and Pfluger, 2001;
Selvin
et al., 1992). Moreover, the clinical consequences of being
exposed to
microwave radiation such as radar has been evaluated from military
and
occupational studies (Balode, 1996; Garaj-Vrhovac, 1999; Goldsmith,
1997; Johnson-Liakouris, 1998; Robinette et al., 1980).
A specific symptomatology, linked to radar exposure at low levels
of RF,
has been termed "microwave sickness" or "RF syndrome."
(Johnson-Liakouris, 1998) With few exceptions, functional disturbances
of the central nervous system have been typically described
as a kind of
radiowave sickness, neurasthenic or asthenic syndrome. Symptoms
and
signs include headache, fatigue, irritability, loss of appetite,
sleepiness, difficulties in concentration or memory, depression,
and
emotional instability. This clinical syndrome is generally reversible
if
RF exposure is discontinued.
Another frequently described manifestation is a set of labile
functional
cardiovascular changes including bradycardia, arterial hypertension,
or
hypotension (Johnson-Liakouris, 1998). This form of neurocirculatory
asthenia is also attributed to nervous system influence. More
serious
but less frequent neurologic or neuropsychiatric disturbances
have
occasionally been described as a diencephalic syndrome
(Johnson-Liakouris, 1998). All these disturbances following
low level
exposures (of the order of microwatts/cm2) have been reported
for many
years from Eastern Europe. The exposures have been mainly low
level and
long term (Goldsmith, 1997; Johnson-Liakouris, 1998).
Also, several articles have found biological dysfunction at
very low
density of radiation without temperature elevation, favoring
the
hypothesis of nonthermal biological effects and pointing to
the
probability of clinical dysfunction below the actual standard
of safety
norms in the European Union (Arber and Lin, 1985; Baranski,
1972; Byus
et al., 1988; Daniells et al., 1998; de Pomerai et al., 2000;
D'Inzeo et
al., 1988; Dutta et al., 1989; Kues et al., 1992; Lai and Singh,
1995-1997; Lai et al., 1984, 1989; Malyapa et al., 1998; Sanders
et al.,
1985; Sarkar et al., 1994; Stagg et al., 1997; Wachtel et al.,
1975).
Low levels of RF are found around the GSM-DCS cellular phone
Base
Stations (BS), where antennas are usually located on the roofs
or in the
top of tall towers. GSM-DCS cellular phones use pulsed microwaves.
These
signals have a spectral similarity to radar signals. The spectral
power
distribution of pulsed signals includes low frequency harmonics.
Typical
pulse duration time ranges from 100 msec to 0.050 µsec in radar,
and
576.9 µsec for each slot of GSM-DCS.
From this point of view, the hypothesis of a "microwave sickness"
in the
neighborhood of the GSM-DCS Base Stations is analyzed in this
study. The
present analysis tries to evaluate if there is some statistical
justification to the complaints and related dysfunction locally
associated with RF exposure from the GSM-DCS Base Stations,
as has been
found in previous studies (Santini et al., 2001, 2002a&b).
Omega: excerpt from a message from Dr. Miguel Mutané
See also under http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega286.htm
"SCIENCE
and CONSCIENCE",
http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/TheMicrowaveSyndrome.doc
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Children
& Mobiles paper now available online
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Following on from "Mobiles 'make you senile" the final published
version
of my paper "Children and Mobile Phones...Is There a Health
Risk?" is
now available on line at:
http://www.emfacts.com/papers/children_mobiles.pdf
Please distribute widely!
Don Maisch
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Would anyone be in a position to help us to find academic reviewers
for
this paper?
John Allman
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Federal State Buildings Under Military, Army Satellite Surveillance
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Its Monday morning you have and appointment that requires you
to enter a
post office, court house for jury duty, federal or state job
are you
fully aware of the surveillance you may encounter upon arrival
at the
federal, state facility?
Satellite surveillance compliments of the military, Army now
observe the
entries to the governmental, state facilities in attempts to
control
terrorism. The intelligent individual may devise logic
with and
explanation of weapons detection however there is yet more of
interest
to the devised explanation "Thought, mind detection" they wish
to know
what you are "thinking" or perhaps "planning" as you enter the
facility.
Its imperative that the reader retain the realization that this
is a
form of deplorable "personal intrusion" on the person, The technology
is
described in a more in-depth manner below. Importantly its the
concern
of many that the technology is inappropriately in use when three
young
females were stalked, manipulated in the most disgusting manner
after
routinely frequenting a governmental office. The inappropriate
use of
the technology is isolated however it's the presented question
how many
incidents should be allowed with the most deplorable level of
violation,
intrusion. Even state employees, documented by the immediate
below
testimony, are not immune from the disgusting military electronic
"intrusion".
In example scenario, David, military personel, a frequency administrator
of the satellite electronic transmission in a miserable existence
of a
life while in a room full of Army personel monitoring facilities
observes a Senate intern who he has taken a personal interest
in stroll
through the transmission, immediately the transmission targets
the young
female intern and follows her through the building and will
periodically
observe her throughout the day performing tasks even to include
personal
task within the governmental lavatory of the governmental facility.
Should the military maintain the ability to observe even the
most
personal events of governmental employees?
Read more under:
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-video/2002-October/002225.html
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President
Bush Undermines Clean Air Act with New Source Review Decision
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President Bush's final New Source Review (NSR) rule will harm
the
environment, despite what he claimed in his speech Monday at
a Detroit
Edison Monroe Power Plant in Michigan. The site of the
speech was
chosen as a model plant that would benefit from the new NSR
rule;
however, the rule would enable the Monroe plant to dump at least
30,000
more tons of sulfur dioxide emissions each year [1].
The Monroe plant is the eighth largest emitter of sulfur dioxide
in the
country [2]. President Bush talked at length about a 1999
request
Detroit Edison submitted to the EPA debating whether its planned
upgrade
would constitute a major modification that would require it
to improve
its pollution control devices.
The President tried to argue that the EPA's decision was too
"complicated" to implement quickly,"[3] but the EPA's response
letter
clearly gave the company the go ahead and in fact encouraged
it to begin
its upgrade project: "Detroit Edison has been free to proceed
at any
time with the Dense Pack project without first obtaining a PSD
permit as
long as it adheres to its stated intention to not increase emissions
as
a result of the project.
Indeed, EPA encourages the company to proceed with the project
on this
basis, since it appears to both reduce emissions per unit of
output and
not increase actual air pollution."[4]
The outcome for the Monroe plant under Bush's new NSR rule means
that it
can increase emissions by more than 30,000 tons a year, a 56
percent
increase over current levels.[5] And in Michigan, where
as many as 22
counties may have air too dirty to consistently meet new federal
clean
air standards, state environmental officials are concerned about
overall
air quality. "The challenge we are facing is new ozone (smog)
regulations, and counties that will be designated as being in
nonattainment," said Patricia Spitzley, spokeswoman for the
Department
of Environmental Quality. "That's a huge issue."[6]
Sources:
1. Bush Defends New Environmental Rules, New York Times, 9/16/03,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1288388&l=5331
2. Clean Air Markets, Data and Maps, Environmental Protection
Agency,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1288388&l=5332.
3. President Visits Detroit Edison Monroe Power Plant in Monroe,
Michigan,
9/15/03 http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1288388&l=5333.
4. EPA Letter to Detroit Edison Counsel, 5/23/00,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1288388&l=5334.
5. Bush Defends New Environmental Rules, New York Times, 9/16/03,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1288388&l=5331
6. Bush links clean air rules to jobs, Detroit News, 9/16/03,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1288388&l=5335
New Source Review Background: The Administration's final NSR
rule
changed the requirement that facilities upgrade pollution controls
when
they replace equipment if the upgrade increases pollution. The
new rule
exempts factories and power plants from upgrading their pollution
controls if the cost of modification is less than 20 percent
of the
plant's total cost, regardless of its impact on emissions. ("States
to
Fight Easing of Rules on Pollution by Power Plants", New York
Times,
8/29/03, p. B1; Natural Resources Defense Council,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1288388&l=5336)
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Transgenic
Trees Spread Mercury Poisoning
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Is moving mercury from place to place really remediation? Prof.
Joe
Cummins asks.
Recently, researchers tested trees genetically modified to remove
ionic
mercury from contaminated soil, then convert that to volatile
elemental
mercury, which is released to the atmosphere. The researchers
seem to
believe that the atmospheric mercury will be relatively harmless.
The
field tests were undertaken in Danbury Connecticut and supported
by the
United States Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and other
interested
parties [1]. Danbury is the home of mercury-polluted sites originating
from hat- making. Mercury caused mercury poisoning in workers,
who get
the "Danbury shakes". The mercury "remediation" project will,
however,
simply move the pollution to the atmosphere, from which it will
be
redeposited over the cities of the Northeast and the lakes and
waterways
of northern USA and Canada. Once deposited in the waterways
and streets
of cities, elemental mercury will be converted by microbes into
organic
mercury that will cause nerve damage and birth defects in humans
and
animals alike.
Last year, I pointed out the dangers of this form of remediation
for the
cities and waters of the United States and Canada [2]. But my
comments
were completely ignored by the EPA bureaucrats and the biotechnology
industry.
Worldwide, human activities resulting in emission of mercury
is
estimated to be some 1900 tonnes, about three quarters from
burning
fossil fuels, particularly coal. Waste disposal sites, cement
manufacture and waste incinerators made up the bulk of the remainder.
Asian countries contribute over half of the emission while Europe
and
North America contribute less than a quarter. Gaseous elemental
mercury
makes up over half of the emitted mercury, while divalent mercury
and
particulate mercury make up the rest [3]. The emitted mercury
tends to
be deposited from the atmosphere in snow and rainfall, posing
serious
threat to humans and animals because elemental mercury is converted
to
ionic and organic mercury after ending up in the Arctic, in
Canada and
Northeastern American cities [2,4]. If phytoremediation of
mercury-polluted sites were undertaken on a large scale in North
America, the global emission of mercury could double in less
than a
decade.
The mercury phytoremediation scheme is based on introducing
a bacterial
gene merA into the genome of plants. For efficient genetic activity
in
plants, a synthetic merA gene with altered DNA sequence is used
to
modify plants [5-7]. Mercury-resistant microbes are also promoted
as an
efficient and inexpensive treatment for mercury-polluted water
[8]. But
the anticipated widespread application of such technology has
not
considered the consequence of atmospheric-pollution from mercury
remediation.
In conclusion, mercury remediation using phytoremediation and
bacterial
remediation, both cause atmospheric release of elemental mercury,
and is
being promoted by technologists and government regulators. Such
"remediation" is no remediation at all, it is just moving the
problem
from one place to another! In fact, it is moving mercury from
contained
contaminated sites to the streets of cities and the bodies of
water that
give us fish and drinking water.
1.Williams P. UGA researchers involved in first trial using
transgenic
trees to help clean up toxic waste site. University of Georgia
News
Release Sept. 11, 2003 http://www.uga.edu/news/
2.Cummins J. "GM trees alert" Science in Society 2002, 16, p.33
3.Pacyna E. and Pacyna J. Global emissions of mercury from anthropogenic
sources in 1995, Soil, Air and Water Pollution 2002, 137, 149-65
4.Renneberg A and Dudas J. Transformation of elemental mercury
to
inorganic and organic forms in mercury and hydrocarbon co-contaminated
soils. Chemosphere year? 45, 1103-9
5.Rugh C, Wilde H, Stack N, Thompson D, Summers A and Meagher
R.
Mercuric ion reduction and resistance in transgenic Arabidopsis
thanliana plants expressing a modified mer A gene. Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci
USA 1996, 93, 3182-7
6.Heaton A, Rugh C, Wang N, and Meagher R. Phtoremediation of
mercury
and methyl mercury polluted soils using genetically engineerd
plants.
Journal of Soil Contamination 1998, 7,497-509
7.Kramer U and Chardonnens A. The use of transgenic plants in
bioremediation of soils contaminated with trace elements. Applied
Microbiology and Biotechnology 2001, 55, 661-72
8.Wagner-Dobler I. Pilot plant for bioremediation of mercury-containing
industrial wastewater. Appl. Microbiol Biotechnol 2003, 62,
124-33
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/TTSMP.php
GM
Crops Irrelevant for Africa
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMCIFA.php
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O.T.
themes:
Mystery
Pneumonia Toll Among US Soldiers May Be Much Higher Than
Military Reports
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1105
Rumsfeld
Contradicts Cheney on Iraq-Terror Link Claim
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1107
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Bush
Administration Miscalculation in Iraq Leads to Calls for
Accountability
President Bush's administration has consistently miscalculated
the
post-war commitment required and Iraqi resistance to the point
where a
growing number of members of Congress who voted for the Iraq
war
resolution are now calling for accountability at high levels.
Both Vice President Cheney and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz
argued publicly before the war that American forces would be
greeted as
liberators,1 including Wolfowitz's assertion less than two weeks
before
the war began that, "Like the people of France in the 1940s,
[the Iraqi
people] view us as their hoped-for liberators."2
The consistently rosy scenarios articulated by Deputy Secretary
Wolfowitz and the administration about much of the war in Iraq,
from the
required troop strength3 to the length of stay4 ignored potential
results manifesting themselves today in the form of additional
funding
requests beyond original estimates, extended troop deployments,
and
skeptical allies from whom the U.S. is now seeking assistance
to
stabilize and rebuild the country.5
The intelligence community, including that of the Pentagon,
concluded
last fall that "there would be resistance . . . They [Defense
Intelligence Agency analysts] said it would be hard to keep
the lid on
and to keep the various areas of the country from falling apart."6
While the administration insists that acts of violence and terrorism
against American forces in Iraq are at the hands of a select
few of
"dead-enders, foreign terrorists and criminal gangs," some defense
officials are also now claiming "it was a mistake for the administration
to discount the role of ordinary Iraqis".7
With the recent announcement that called-up reserves will be
required to
serve an extra tour of duty, senior Army officials are publicly
saying
that "the Army is strained and stressed."8 Rep. John Murtha,
a member
who voted for the war resolution, said, "Poor planning by Administration
put American lives at risk . . .The architect of this post-war
plan has
to go."9
Sources:
1. Meet the Press, 3/16/03.
2. "Pre-War Predictions Coming Back to Bite", USA Today, p.
8A.
3. "Cost of War Remains Unanswered Question," Washington Post,
p. A13.
4. "A grand plan to bomb Baghdad and impose stability on Kirkuk",
Financial Times, 3/1/03, p. 11.
5. "Powell in Baghdad: Too soon for self-rule", Chicago Tribune,
9/15/03, p.1.
6. "Spy Agencies Warned of Iraq Resistance," Washington Post,
9/9/03, p.
A1.
7. "Iraqis' Bitterness Is Called Bigger Threat Than Terror,"
New York
Times, 9/17/03, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1288388&l=5409
8. "Iraq Takes A Toll on Rumsfeld," Washington Post, 9/14/03,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1288388&l=5410
9. News Conference with Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and
Rep. John
Murtha (D-PA), U.S. Capitol, 9/16/03.
Message from: The Daily Mislead
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LP
joins ACLU campaign to defend Americans
http://tinyurl.com/nsbe
Bush:
No evidence Saddam was involved in 9/11 attacks
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/09/17/sprj.irq.bush.ap/
Rumsfeld's
McArmy goes to war
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/09/18/mcarmy/
Blair
loses key vote as Iraq problems dog Labour
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters09-18-190423.asp
Now
he tells us ...
http://www.reason.com/links/links091803.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Blix:
Saddam destroyed his WMD a decade ago
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=444483
Making
Terrorists
http://www.progressive.org/oct03/comm1003.html
Senator
Robert C. Byrd: Losing Dollars and Sense in Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4746.htm
Lies
Have Consequences
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2604.htm
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