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These people should get themselves tested in a room where a wi-fi unit is switched on & of by a person outside while they are interviewed to make sure the problem is not in their head. televisions, computers ,microwave ovens, ect all give out similar rf at the same or greater levels taking into consideration the distance from the source. The oter alternative is to place tin foil inside their hats as it is not going away.
9 commentsWednesday, May 28, 2008
By Mike Sachoff
A group in Santa Fe, New Mexico wants to ban Wi-Fi from public buildings because they claim they are allergic to the wireless Internet signal.
"If I walk into a room or building that has Wi-Fi, my most immediate sign is that the front of my right thigh goes numb," Arthur Firstenberg, of Santa Fe told ABC. "If I don't leave, I'll get short of breath, chest pains and the numbness will spread."
Firstenberg is part of a small group of people who believe they have Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, a condition in which they are sensitive to electromagnetic fields and feel pain.
The Santa Fe group maintains that putting Wi-Fi in public areas is a violation of the American with Disabilities Act. The city attorney is investigating to see if putting up Wi-Fi could be considered discrimination.
"There are those who believe that the various and sundry electronic devices have these magnetic waves that affect the nervous system," said Dr. James Toole, professor of neurology and public health sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C.
A 2004 World Health Organization workshop found," "There are also some indications that these symptoms may be due to pre-existing psychiatric conditions as well as stress reactions as a result of worrying about believed EMF health effects, rather than the EMF exposure itself," the editors of the WHO workshop wrote.
They added," Whatever its cause, EHS is a real and sometimes a disabling problem for the affected persons."
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Ellergic to WiFi
I suffer from electro hypersensitivity. If I go to the library in Woodstock Ontario, the WiFi system makes me feel ill. The symptoms are pressure pains like someone sitting on my chest. I found this out the hard way without knowing that a WiFi system existed. The ill efffects lasted about two days.
My wife started a job in Woodstock and afer the first two days she came home and told me that she was getting severe headaches and could not think straight. She is not electro hypersensitive and has never reported any symptoms. When I checked her office, I found a WiFi system located behind her computer screen. When I turned the system off, she reported no further health problems while at work. The previous person who worked in the office had just developed terminal cancer and died shorty afterwards.
There are several scientific research papers which link cancer and many health effects to electro magnetic radiation, as emmitted by WiFi systems, cordless phones and cell phones etc.
WiFi is extremely dangerous. Wired systems should always e used.