Swisscom admits that WiFi can Harm People

 
Swisscom admits that WiFi can Harm People
http://www.safeschool.ca/Swisscom__WiFi_Harms.html 


 
 

Swisscom reveals the true DANGER of WiFi in a patent  application. Swisscom
is the leading telecom  provider in Switzerland and it  devised a way to
reduce the microwave radiation from WiFi (also known as  WLAN or wireless
local area network). In its patent application,  Swisscom clearly states the
elevated risk of cancer and genetic damage  from the constant low level
microwave/RF exposure from  WiFi.



 
 
 
Below are excerpts from page one and page two. The  full application is at
the bottom of the page.


 
 
**The influence of electrosmog on the human body  is a known problem. The
health risk from mobile radio  transmitters (WiFi base stations) handys and
DECT telephones has been  an explosive subject among the general public...To
meet the concerns of science  from the legislative side, the permissible
limit values have thus been lowered  several times (in Switzerland) and
technology has been increasingly focused on  this problem. The risk of damage to
health through electrosmog  has also become better understood as a result of
more recent and improved  studies. When, for example, human blood cells are
irradiated with  electromagnetic fields, clear damage to hereditary material
has been  demonstrated and there have been indications of an increased
cancer  risk (Mashevich M., Folkman D. , Kesar A., Barbul A. , Korenstein R. ,  
Jerby E. , Avivi L., Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine,  
Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, **Exposure of human peripheral blood  
lymphocytes to electromagnetic fields associated with cellular phones leads
to  chromosomal instability,** Bioelectromagnetics, 2003 Feb. , 24 (2):
82-90).


 
 
**Control experiments (without microwave/RF radiation)  carried out in the
temperature range of 34.5 to 38.5 °C showed that  elevated temperature is
not associated with either the genetic or epigenetic  alterations…These
findings indicate that the genotoxic effect  of electromagnetic radiation is
elicited via a non-thermal pathway.  Moreover aneuploidy is to be considered as a
known phenomenon in the  increase of cancer risk.**



 
 
Please note, the permissible microwave radiation limits in  Canada have
never been lowered, as they have been in Switzerland and many  European
countries. Canadian guidelines do not protect against or acknowledge  any
biological changes.


 
 
**Thus it has been possible to show that mobile  radio radiation can cause
damage to genetic material, in particular in human  white blood cells,
whereby both the DNA itself is damaged and the number of  chromosomes changed.
This mutation can consequently lead to  increased cancer risk. In particular,
it could also be shown  that this destruction is not dependent upon
temperature increases, i.e.  is non-thermal.**



 
 
 
From page 5, section 25:

 
 
**Despite increasingly strict national (Swiss) guidelines  with respect to
legally specified limits, the impact of electrosmog in WLANs on  the human
body can be considerable. Moreover it is to be expected that this  impact
will continue to increase in the future for many people...First, more and  more
applications require additional, usually higher-energy frequency bands in  
order to be able to meet the growing need with respect to transmission
rate.**



 
 
 
From page 6, sections 5-15:

 
 
**There has been a lot of effort put into providing  evidence for the
detrimental effects of electrosmog and setting  corresponding limits. Limits and
guidelines alone will not suffice, however, to  further contain the
electrosmog in WLANs since the development in WLANs runs in  exactly the opposite
direction, as mentioned above. WLANs even represent zones  in which people
usually spend longer periods of time (place of work, Internet,  network games,
etc. ) and are therefore to be considered as particularly  problematic with
respect to radiation impact…This means that even when  the WLAN is not being
used at all, an underlying stress from  electromagnetic radiation remains
for persons in the Basic Service Area  of an access point of the WLAN. For
example, in the case of WLANs at places of  employment, such as offices, etc.,
there exists therefore permanent  stress from electrosmog from the WLAN on
the employees of the company  or organization.**



 
 
The entire Swisscom international patent  application can be viewed click
here http://www.safeschool.ca/uploads/WiFi_Swisscom_Patent.pdf


 
 
It was filed September 2004. Since that time,  hundreds of more studies
confirming health effects and biological  changes from microwave/RF exposure
have been published. Personal  experiences of harm and illness from wireless
devices have been routinely  reported. Despite all the evidence, Health
Canada and our  provincial governments and school boards, promote unlimited
exposure to  microwave radiation and refuse to investigate when children or  
adults get sick from it.


 
 
Our governments and  school boards act like a sales team for wireless. Even
the  telecom companies don*t say their products are without risk. Only our  
governments do.
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