Caitlyn McFarland feels like she's forgetting something every time she leaves her St. Catharines apartment.

Imagine juicing up your laptop computer or cell phone without plugging it into an electrical socket.

Often unaware of the potential risks to both library staff and the public, libraries have adopted wireless technology as a means to bridge the Digital Divide and in order to fulfill their mission under the Library Bill of Rights.

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome (EHS) is a condition in which people are highly sensitive to electromagnetic fields. In an area such as a wireless hotspot, they experience pain or other symptoms.

During recent years the WHO, World Health Organization and IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer have lost credibility, because...

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Medical Alert 

Aggravated Symptom Relapses Reported after Use of

Widely Available EMR Protection Products 

Contact:  Dr. George Carlo (drcarlo@safewireless.org); (202) 756-7744

Reasons for this Advisory:

• An alarmingly high number of patients with electro-hypersensitivity and other related conditions are reporting serious symptom relapses after periods of time when symptoms were apparently mitigated by use of products that claim to be protective against electro-magnetic radiation (EMR) related disease.
• The symptom relapses are reportedly more severe than the symptoms that defined the original illnesses – suggesting that the patients are sicker after the use of the purported protective products than before the use.
• We fear that consumers are being lured into a false sense of security by their use of widely-available products purporting to prevent disease – causing consumers to unknowingly compound the effects of dangerous exposures by increasing their use of wireless devices.
• In the United States as well as globally, no steps have been taken by either the Food and Drug Administration or any other regulatory authority to protect patients and consumers from this apparent danger. 
• Thus, our intent is to empower consumers to protect themselves in this regard.

An astronomer once quipped that if Neil Armstrong had taken a cell phone to the Moon in 1969, it would have appeared to be the third most powerful source of microwave radiation in the universe, next only to the Sun and the Milky Way. He was right.

Recently there has been a flood of news items mentioning wireless as a driving factor for better healthcare.
The latest bit is that UK's Ofcom, that are supposed to be regulating the wireless industry, are speaking about "opening up more radio spectrum" in order to allow this brave new wireless healthcare system to grow.

 The management of the famous France National Library (BNF) just decides a moratorium on the Wi-Fi hot spot giving access to internet that were supposed to be installed by a private corporation on the entire area.

The rate of technological innovation in some fields is developing exponentially with new advances in wireless sensor networks, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, motes, nodes, grids, and media platforms.