Britain's Health Protection Agency acknowledges ES

> Sunday London Times Report
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1774586,00.html
>
> September 11, 2005
>
> Electrical fields can make you sick
> Sarah-Kate Templeton, Medical Correspondent
>
> A GOVERNMENT agency has acknowledged for the first time that people
> can suffer nausea, headaches and muscle pains when exposed to
> electromagnetic fields from mobile phones, electricity pylons and
> computer screens.
>
> The condition known as electrosensitivity, a heightened reaction to
> electrical energy, will be recognised as a physical impairment.
>
> A report by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), to be published next
> month, will state that increasing numbers of British people are
> suffering from the syndrome. While the total figure is not known,
> thousands are believed to be affected to some extent.
>
> The report, by the agency's radiation protection division, is
> expected to say that GPs do not know how to treat sufferers and that
> more research is needed to find cures. It will give a full list of the
> symptoms, which can include dizziness, irregular heartbeat and loss of
> memory.
>
> Although most European countries do not recognise the condition,
> Britain will follow Sweden where electrosensitivity was recognised as
> a physical impairment in 2000. About 300,000 Swedish men and women are
> sufferers.
>
> The acknowledgement may fuel legal action by sufferers who claim
> mobile phone masts have made them ill.
>
> In January Sir William Stewart, chairman of the HPA and the
> government's adviser on mobile phones, warned that a small
> proportion of the population could be harmed by exposure to
> electromagnetic fields, and called for careful examination of the
> problem.
>
> The HPA has now reviewed all scientific literature on
> electrosensitivity and concluded that it is a real syndrome. The
> condition had previously been dismissed as psychological.
>
> The findings should lead to better treatment for sufferers. In Sweden
> people who are allergic to electrical energy receive government
> support to reduce exposure in their homes and workplaces.
>
> Special cables are installed in sufferers' homes while electric
> cookers are replaced with gas stoves. Walls, roofs, floors and windows
> can be covered with a thin aluminium foil to keep out the
> electromagnetic field - the area of energy that occurs round any
> electrically conductive item.
>
> British campaigners believe electrical devices in the home and the
> workplace, as well as mobile phones emitting microwave radiation, have
> created an environmental trigger for the syndrome.
>
> There is particular concern about exposure to emissions from mobile
> phone masts or base stations, often located near schools or hospitals.
>
> In January Stewart also called for a national review of planning rules
> for masts. The review was launched by the government in April.
>
> British sufferers report feeling they are being "zapped" by
> electromagnetic fields from appliances and go out of their way to
> avoid them.
>
> Some have moved to remote areas where electromagnetic pollution is
> lower.
>
> The HPA report is eagerly awaited by campaigners. Alasdair Philips,
> director of the campaign group Powerwatch, said: "This will help
> the increasing number of people who tell us their GPs do not know how
> to treat them."
>
> Rod Read, chairman of Electrosensitivity UK, added: "This will be
> the beginning of an awareness of a new form of pollution from
> electrical energy."
>
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> A press release of HPA:
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> Press Statement
>
> 12 September 2005
>
> Forthcoming Review on Electrosensitivity
>
> Recent newspaper articles about a forthcoming report from the Health
> Protection Agency are speculative, and various assertions about its

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> > Sunday London Times Report
> >
> > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1774586,00.html
> >
> > September 11, 2005
> >
> > Electrical fields can make you sick
> > Sarah-Kate Templeton, Medical Correspondent
> >
> > A GOVERNMENT agency has acknowledged for the first time that people
> > can suffer nausea, headaches and muscle pains when exposed to
> > electromagnetic fields from mobile phones, electricity pylons and
> > computer screens.
> >
> > The condition known as electrosensitivity, a heightened reaction to
> > electrical energy, will be recognised as a physical impairment.
> >
> > A report by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), to be published next
> > month, will state that increasing numbers of British people are
> > suffering from the syndrome. While the total figure is not known,
> > thousands are believed to be affected to some extent.
> >
> > The report, by the agency's radiation protection division, is
> > expected to say that GPs do not know how to treat sufferers and that
> > more research is needed to find cures. It will give a full list of the
> > symptoms, which can include dizziness, irregular heartbeat and loss of
> > memory.
> >
> > Although most European countries do not recognise the condition,
> > Britain will follow Sweden where electrosensitivity was recognised as
> > a physical impairment in 2000. About 300,000 Swedish men and women are
> > sufferers.
> >
> > The acknowledgement may fuel legal action by sufferers who claim
> > mobile phone masts have made them ill.
> >
> > In January Sir William Stewart, chairman of the HPA and the
> > government's adviser on mobile phones, warned that a small
> > proportion of the population could be harmed by exposure to
> > electromagnetic fields, and called for careful examination of the
> > problem.
> >
> > The HPA has now reviewed all scientific literature on
> > electrosensitivity and concluded that it is a real syndrome. The
> > condition had previously been dismissed as psychological.
> >
> > The findings should lead to better treatment for sufferers. In Sweden
> > people who are allergic to electrical energy receive government
> > support to reduce exposure in their homes and workplaces.
> >
> > Special cables are installed in sufferers' homes while electric
> > cookers are replaced with gas stoves. Walls, roofs, floors and windows
> > can be covered with a thin aluminium foil to keep out the
> > electromagnetic field - the area of energy that occurs round any
> > electrically conductive item.
> >
> > British campaigners believe electrical devices in the home and the
> > workplace, as well as mobile phones emitting microwave radiation, have
> > created an environmental trigger for the syndrome.
> >
> > There is particular concern about exposure to emissions from mobile
> > phone masts or base stations, often located near schools or hospitals.
> >
> > In January Stewart also called for a national review of planning rules
> > for masts. The review was launched by the government in April.
> >
> > British sufferers report feeling they are being "zapped" by
> > electromagnetic fields from appliances and go out of their way to
> > avoid them.
> >
> > Some have moved to remote areas where electromagnetic pollution is
> > lower.
> >
> > The HPA report is eagerly awaited by campaigners. Alasdair Philips,
> > director of the campaign group Powerwatch, said: "This will help
> > the increasing number of people who tell us their GPs do not know how
> > to treat them."
> >
> > Rod Read, chairman of Electrosensitivity UK, added: "This will be
> > the beginning of an awareness of a new form of pollution from
> > electrical energy."
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> >
> > Copyright 2005 Times Newspapers Ltd.
> > This service is provided on Times Newspapers' standard Terms and
> > Conditions . Please read our Privacy Policy . To inquire about a
> > licence to reproduce material from The Times, visit the Syndication
> > website .
> >