3 Oct 2008, 0507 hrs IST,TNN

CHENNAI: Set a bird song as your mobile ringtone. For that may soon be the only way you get to hear from our winged friends —studies show that the increasing number of cell phone towers in cities is bringing down bird population.

While studies in Spain and Belgium have established the ill-effects of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emitted by cell phone masts on birds, a study to be published next month by a team in Panjab University has found that EMR can damage bird eggs and embryos. The study, conducted in Chandigarh, is applicable to all Indian cities where cell phone masts are proliferating. Chennai has 4,000 cell phone towers, compared to about 200 in Chandigarh.

Researchers at the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore, say there are enough reasons to attribute bird mortality to such radiation. “Cell phones and towers emit a very low frequency of 900 or 1,800 MHz, called microwaves. Studies have found that they can cause thin skulls of chicks and thin egg shells,” says Dhanya R, a researcher at SACON.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chennai/Radiation_from_mobile_towers_wipes_out_birds/articleshow/3554235.cms



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Cellular and cordless telephone use and the association with brain tumors in different age groups
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16121902


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theoneshow/onepassions/2008/10/are-mobile-phones-safe.html#dnaacs


Is this programme supposed to be serious or a joke? If serious then either budget cuts must have allowed for little time to do any proper research or this is just more spin put out by the BBC in the wake of the reports mainly in the print media on the latest research showing a 5 times increased risk of brain tumours for mobile phone users who started under 20 years old, ie children.

To quote from a meta analysis of ALL the brain tumour research to that point (2007)

http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/64/9/626

We conclude that results from present studies on use of mobile phones for =10 years give a consistent pattern of an increased risk for acoustic neuroma and glioma. The risk is highest for ipsilateral exposure.

The Danish study had many methodological errors as detailed below.

It is always interesting to see which sections of the media choose to report the findings of which studies. It is easy to see which side they are on! People are left to have to do the research for themselves.
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'The Danish cohort study on mobile phone subscribers was updated with follow-up through 2002 for cancer incidence. As previously, 200 000 (32%) company subscribers were excluded and apparently instead included in the population-based comparison group. The expected numbers were based on the general population. However, a large part of the population does use mobile phones and/or cordless phones, the latter use not assessed at all in the study. There was no truly unexposed group for comparison. Of the subscribers, 85% were men and 15% were women, thus giving a very skewed sex distribution.

There seemed to be a "healthy worker" effect in the study, as SIR was significantly decreased to 0.95 (95% CI 0.9 to 0.97) for all cancers. In the group with >=10 years since first subscription, significantly decreased SIR of 0.7 (0.4 to 0.95) was found for brain and nervous system tumours indicating methodological problems in the study. Temporal glioma yielded SIR = 1.2 (0.9 to 1.6). This finding was based on 54 people. No latency data were given or laterality of phone use in relation to tumour localisation in the brain.'



Research: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17148772

Powerwatch Criticism:
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20061206_danish_phones_cancer.asp


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Pak J Biol Sci. 2008 Apr 15;11(8):1142-6.
Mercury release from dental amalgam restorations after magnetic resonance imaging and following mobile phone use.
Mortazavi SM, Daiee E, Yazdi A, Khiabani K, Kavousi A, Vazirinejad R, Behnejad B, Ghasemi M, Mood MB.

Department of Medical Physics, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

In the 1st phase of this study, thirty patients were investigated. Five milliliter stimulated saliva was collected just before and after MRI. The magnetic flux density was 0.23 T and the duration of exposure of patients to magnetic field was 30 minutes. In the 2nd phase, fourteen female healthy University students who had not used mobile phones before the study and did not have any previous amalgam restorations were investigated. Dental amalgam restoration was performed for all 14 students. Their urine samples were collected before amalgam restoration and at days 1, 2, 3 and 4 after restoration. The mean +/- SD saliva Hg concentrations of the patients before and after MRI were 8.6 +/- 3.0 and 11.3 +/- 5.3 microg L(-1), respectively (p < 0.01). A statistical significant (p < 0.05) higher concentration was observed in the students used mobile phone. The mean +/- SE urinary Hg concentrations of the students who used mobile phones were 2.43 +/- 0.25, 2.71 +/- 0.27, 3.79 +/- 0.25, 4.8 +/- 0.27 and 4.5 +/- 0.32 microg L(-1) before the amalgam restoration and at days 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. Whereas the respective Hg concentrations in the controls, were 2.07 +/- 0.22, 2.34 +/- 0.30, 2.51 +/- 0.25, 2.66 +/- 0.24 and 2.76 +/- 0.32 microg L(-1). It appears that MRI and microwave radiation emitted from mobile phones significantly release mercury from dental amalgam restoration. Further research is needed to clarify whether other common sources of electromagnetic field exposure may cause alterations in dental amalgam and accelerate the release of mercury.

PMID: 18819554 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18819554?dopt=AbstractPlus


Informant: Dorothee Krien

See also: http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/21c3008dd9ea721

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From: Olle Johansson
To: Martin Weatherall
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: Mercury release from dental amalgam restorations after magnetic resonance imaging and following mobile phone use.

This is extremely interesting and completely in line with the fundamental studies by the Swedish team of Per Högstedt and Thomas Örtendahl!

Ortendahl TW, Hogstedt P, Holland RP, "Mercury vapor release from dental amalgam in vitro caused by magnetic fields generated by CRT's and electrical cutting procedures", Swed Dent J 1991, p 31, abstract 22

I have tried for years and years to get money to repeat their studies and to expand them to mobile phone use - so I am very happy to see it finally to get momentum!

Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
&
Professor
The Royal Institute of Technology
100 44 Stockholm
Sweden

 

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Source: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20080917_warnke_birds_bees.pdf

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Insects on Rader’s screen

Cairns Newspapers - Queensland, Australia

... prepare and enter data and analyse it. Romina’s research is vital as bee populations across the globe are dying due to disease and climate change.

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Beekeepers 'at desperation point'

The Ashburton Guardian - Ashburton, New Zealand

... in January this year with buckets full of dead and dying bees, complaining that the deaths were caused through chemicals being used inappropriately. ...

http://www.ashburtonguardian.co.nz/index.asp?articleid=12076

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Bees disaster threatens the honey harvest

Wokingham Times - Wokingham, England, UK

Imagine if that were a permanent scenario: if there are no British honey-bees, there’ll be no British honey on the shelves.” Concerned what the dying bees ...

http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/lifestyle/food_and_drink/s/2036346_bees_disaster_threatens_the_honey_harvest

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Keepers of honeybees fighting environmental, financial effects of mysterious colony collapses

Memphis Commercial Appeal - Memphis, TN, USA

Richard Underhill of Peace Bee Farm near Proctor, Ark., compared the disappearance to a dying canary in a mine shaft -- the first sign of a major ...

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/oct/02/buzz-word-survival/

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Mass loss of bees threatens our ecosystem of food production

Scotsman - United Kingdom

Yet bees are dying out globally at an alarming rate. With no bees, we would be forced to live without products such as flowers, nuts, soya beans, onions, ...

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Mass-loss-of-bees-threatens.4555251.jp

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Bees Dying Off Nationwide

WCTV - Tallahassee, FL, USA

Echols County Extension Agent Justin Shealey, "Its basically where the bees just begin dying in the hives, nobody really knows what's causing it right now. ...

http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/30711114.html

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Bestäubung durch Insekten schafft 150 Milliarden Euro

Französische und deutsche Wissenschaftler haben erstmals berechnet, welche Werte Insekten wie Bienen durch die Bestäubung von Agrarpflanzen schaffen. Der Studie zufolge hat der ökonomische Nutzen durch diese Bestäuber im Jahre 2005 etwa 150 Milliarden Euro betragen.

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The link below is the first report of its kind in a major international business magazine.
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Lloyd Morgan

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MIND YOUR PHONE: ELECTROHYPERSENSITIVITY
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The First Congressional Hearings on Cell Phones in 15 Years
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September 2008

Wissenschaftler fordern verantwortungsbewussten Umgang mit Mobilfunk

- Grenzwerte senken
- Bevölkerung vor Langzeitfolgen schützen

Das Podium des Kongresses „Elektrosmog 2008“ richtet an die Bundesregierung folgende Forderungen:

- Nachhaltige Senkung der Grenzwerte für Mobilfunk, WLAN usw.

- Handyverbot für Kinder und Jugendliche unter 18 Jahren

- Recht auf Unverletzbarkeit des Wohnraumes

- In Schlafräumen maximal 0,1Mikrowatt/qm gepulste Hochfrequenzstrahlung

- Anwendung des Vorsorgeprinzips


Hintergrund

Die Mobilfunkindustrie behauptet: „Bei Einhaltung der Grenzwerte ist Mobilfunk sicher.“ Für den kritischen Bürger stellt sich die Frage, welchen Wahrheitsgehalt diese Aussage hat.

Die Grenzwerte sind in der 26. Verordnung zum Bundesimmissionsschutzgesetz (26. BImSchV) festgelegt und wurden aus der DIN/VDE 0848 unverändert übernommen. Basis hierfür ist eine temperaturerhöhende Wirkung über einen Expositionszeitraum von sechs Minuten. Bei der Festsetzung der aktuellen Grenzwerte wurde ausschließlich der temperaturerhöhende Effekt berücksichtigt, nicht jedoch die biologische Wirkung auf den menschlichen Körper. Die besondere biologische Wirkung der Mobilfunkstrahlung findet in der Grenzwertregelung keine Berücksichtigung. Zwischen den periodisch gepulsten Hochfrequenzfeldern moderner Kommunikationstechniken (GSM-Mobilfunk, WLAN, DECT, „bluetooth“etc.) und dem in der DIN/VDE 0848 eingesetzten (ungepulsten) Dauerstrahler wird nicht unterschieden. Die auf dieses Problem hinweisende international publizierte wissenschaftliche Datenlage wird unter dem Vorwand ignoriert, dass außer einem thermischen Eintrag kein Wirkungsmodell existiere und somit wissenschaftliche Aussagen nicht dem derzeitigen Wissen entsprächen. Genau genommen bedeutet dies, dass alles, was den statistischen Regularien nicht genügt, auch nicht existent ist. Zahlreiche seriöse unabhängige Wissenschaftler in aller Welt warnen vor auf Empfehlungen der Industrie zurückgehende politischen Fehlentscheidungen zu Grenzwerten bei der Nutzung moderner Funktechniken.

Wir appellieren an die politisch Verantwortlichen, einen Vorsorgewert für gepulste Mikrowellenstrahlung zu erarbeiten, der der drohenden biologischen Langzeitwirkung der o.g. Technologien Rechnung trägt. Insbesondere junge Menschen, deren Gehirne und Nervensysteme sich noch im Entwicklungsstadium befinden, sind vor den unvorhersehbaren Folgen der Mobilfunkstrahlung zu schützen. Die Unverletzbarkeit des Wohnraums muss in Zukunft gewährleistet werden – eine flächendeckende Telekommunikationsversorgung ist innerhalb geschlossenen Wohnraums durch Festnetzanschlüsse bzw. kabelgebundene Lösungen bundesweit flächendeckend gegeben.


Prof.Dr. Franz Adlkofer
Dr. Lebrecht von Klitzing
Prof. Dr. Michael Kundi
Wolfgang Maes
Dr. med. Hans-Christoph Scheiner
Siegfried Zwerenz

http://www.elektrosmog2008.de/8.html

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