23.11.06

Sufferers like Kate Figes say wi-fi leaves them feeling exhausted, nauseous and sleepless

It is the hi-tech tool that has revolutionised home and office alike - but a growing band of campaigners claim wi-fi is a major threat to health.

Sufferers say the electro-magnetic waves emitted by wireless computer networks - wi-fi - leave them feeling exhausted, nauseous and sleepless.

Author Kate Figes, spent hundreds of pounds installing wireless internet in her Stoke Newington home, then found it made her so ill she had to scrap it.

Ms Figes, 49, claims she is so sensitive to wi-fi's electro-magnetic waves she can instantly tell whether it is installed in a particular room.

This comes days after campaigners called for parents to remove the system from their homes to prevent harming their children's health.

Ms Figes said: "The day we installed wi-fi two years ago was the day I started to feel ill. At first I could not work out what the problem was. I had no idea why I felt so sick and run-down. But I knew that when I walked through the front door it felt like walking into a cloud of poison.

"Imagine being prodded all over your body by 1,000 fingers. That is what I felt when I walked into the house... Then I started to think it might be the wi-fi, so we scrapped it - and I felt better."

She added: "Most people I've spoken are really dismissive, but I don't think they've considered the long-term impact of this technology." The mother-of-two is just one of many people who contacted campaigning group ElectroSensitivityUK about their fears over the harmful effects of wi-fi.

A spokesman for the group said: "We've been inundated by calls from people who know this is affecting them, but in many cases are wary of speaking out. The telecommunications companies pour scorn, but none of them has been able to prove wi-fi is safe."

But Chris Guy, head of Reading University's School of Systems Engineering said: "The amount of power emitted by wi-fi devices is about a tenth of that given out by mobile phones. It is very, very unlikely that it is harmful because the power levels are so low. I just do not believe wi-fi is damaging people's health."

© 2006 Associated Newspapers Ltd

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23375600-details/Wireless+technology+made+me+sick/article.do


Evening standard article.

Angie



WiFi more

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/kate_figes/2006/12/wifi_worries.html

Please add comments to Kate Figes new blog if you wish. There are loads of negative responses.

Best Wishes

Sarah



We really should get as many of our contacts as possible to add comments as its diabolical how anti- us they are.

Please pass to as many contacts as possible.

Cheers

Lisa


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Letters please from ES affected people to the "Standard" in the UK because of ES victims of WiFi article

Dear all. There is a case going here now:

http://www.mast-victims.org/index.php?content=news&action=view&type=newsitem&id=1250

and the reporter has invited people to write in to: letters@standard.co.uk

Sylvie, you are ES in France, I am ES in Britain, Iris is ES in Israel, Robert is ES in Canada, loads of people, all over the world are ES because of masts and microwave radiation.

Please write him a letter of how you have been affected.

We All need to write him a letter of how we are affected.

I am sending this E-mail address to all you good people I know. FEB.se as well Frans and stopumts, as Omega news and EMFacts, next-up know Christine Kind and Marianne Buchmann in Germany, Shivani and Dr. Gerald Goldberg in the USA as well as Dr. Spadanuda and Electrosmog Voltutino Italy, and "Vores Børns fremtid" in Denmark and Kalle Hallberg in Sweden and Dr. Roy Kwabena in Trinidad. Still wonder if we are too few? We are getting more and more and more, much thanks for all your help and support. Let us go for them and show them how many we are, and everywhere in the world. Let us write a short letter. Many short letters

Best regards.
Agnes



Dear Agnes,

I have already sent The Standard, The Times and ThisisLondon each one a comment. I do hope they dare to use it!

Best regards

Yours Olle

(Olle Johansson, assoc. prof. The Experimental Dermatology Unit Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm Sweden)

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The HIGH COURT of Paola (ITALY) says NO to BTS-Base Transceiver Station for telephone
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2996811/

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Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2957963/

Health risks of Wi-Fi and WLAN on our health
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1122031/

University without Wi-Fi
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/university_without_wi_fi.htm

WLAN, DECT in Schools and Kindergardens
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1579030/

WLAN Sickness: Rubbish or Reasonable?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1692101/

Swedes hit hard by WiMAX waves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2163464/



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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Gilbert
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Gilbert
Starmail - 23. Nov, 13:04 - bearbeiten

WiMAX could fry your brain. Or not

Wi-fi uproar continues

By INQUIRER staff
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?page=24&authorID=19

23 November 2006, 08:53

THE LETTER page of the London Times continues a debate on the alleged danger wireless networks pose to mankind.

See Schools ban wi-fi networks after safety fears.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35837

Today, for example, the president of Lakeland University, Ontario, maintains that his campus banned wi-fi because evidence of physiological and behavioural evidence is compelling.

Fred Gilbert, the president of the university, said that 31 scientists have signed the Benevento Resolution which does recommend precautionary strategies to wireless systems.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/benevento_resolution.pdf

According to this article on Treehugger, Gilbert thinks that electric and magnetic fields are likely to affect young people more than old codgers. He likens EMF fields to second hand tobacco and asbestos, which proved to be dangerous long after they were in wide use.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/02/a_univerisity_w.php

The Benevento Resolution said authorities should designate wi-fi free zones in cities, in schools, hospitals and on public transport systems.

Vendors of wi-fi systems and promoters of wi-fi and WiMAX systems have so far been curiously silent about the debate.

But senior Intel executive Sean Maloney told the INQ last year there is no evidence wireless transmissions have an effect on human tissue. See WiMAX masts pose no health risk, Intel says. µ
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=22494

Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35922

© 2006 VNU Business Publications Ltd.

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Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2957963/

Health risks of Wi-Fi and WLAN on our health
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1122031/

University without Wi-Fi
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/university_without_wi_fi.htm

WLAN, DECT in Schools and Kindergardens
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1579030/

WLAN Sickness: Rubbish or Reasonable?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1692101/

Swedes hit hard by WiMAX waves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2163464/



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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Gilbert
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Gilbert