World Health Organization vs. electro-smog victims

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Do not measure radiation in your house. Says who? says WHO !

World Health Organization writes off electro-smog victims

By Judi McLeod

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Is " dirty electricity " in your own suburban dream home making you ill?

According to PooBahs at the World Health Organization, you've only come down

with " Idiopathic Environment Intolerance " (IEI).

Summer smog visible on the skyline over cities like Toronto and Los Angeles

provides a perfect seasonal soapbox for headline hungry politicians.

No politician or environmental activist is doing anything about the

electricity pollution that an increasing number of people say is making them

ill, and

certainly not WHO.

WHO, which last week held a workshop on " Electrical Hypersensitivity " , in

Prague, Czech Republic wrote off global victims of electricity pollution and

electrosmog-and included a recommendation advising governments to " discourage

measurement in homes " .

If electrosmog is not creating problems for human health, then why would WHO

discourage measurement of electric magnetic fields in homes?

Retired Toronto police officer Weatherall, who suffers from an illness

he believes was brought on by electricity pollution, says WHO may someday be

found " criminally irresponsible " in writing off the victims of electrosmog.

Weatherall, who works on behalf of other victims of electricity pollution,

has dispatched a letter to WHO Director General Lee Jong Wok, included here:

10 November 2005

Director-General Lee Jong-wook

World Health Organization Headquarters

Avenue Appia 20

1211 Geneva 27

Switzerland

Dear Director-General:

I have recently read the document entitled " WHO Workshop on Electrical

Hypersensitivity, Prague, Czech Republic, October 25-27, 2004. Working Group

Meeting " . I am now writing to advise you how disappointed I am with some of the

recommendations. In particular, I am referring to the recommendations on page 8

under the headings Information for the General Public and Advice to Governments,

both of which include the point: " discourage measurements in homes " .

This advice to the General Public and to Governments is so completely

contrary to sensible thinking and so fundamentally wrong that the World Health

Organization may be criminally liable for offences in the countries that follow

these guidelines. I base this statement on my own experience and situations

where

I have had personal involvement.

If the WHO is considering only simple EMFs as being the cause of many

people's illnesses, the WHO is quite wrong. A better way to describe the real

problem

is " electrical pollution " or " electrosmog " . This includes:

1. Electromagnetic fields

2. Electrical fields

3. Ground current electricity

4. Dirty electricity on the power distribution systems

5. Broadcast signals from a variety of different sources, including cellular

telephones, radar and wireless devices.

If the WHO is not willing to consider how all of these problems interact and

cause health problems, the WHO will fail to diagnose the true cause of many

severe illnesses and will fail in its duties to the world population.

In the WHO document, the working group has chosen a description other than

electro hypersensitivity and has called the illnesses " Idiopathic Environmental

Intolerance' (IEI). My description is a little more simple to understand and

is more to the point - " electrical and radio frequency radiation poisoning " .

The persons that you refer to as IEI suffer their illnesses only after being

exposed to dangerous levels of electrical pollution. They have been poisoned,

possibly by one of the above named toxic ingredients, but it is more likely that

a mixture of two or more elements caused their illnesses.

It is totally irresponsible for the WHO to discourage the testing of homes of

persons suffering from EMFs and other forms of electrical pollution. Severe

suffering and even death may result for those who do not get help. The WHO

should reverse the current recommendations, and advise complete and thorough

testing of victims' homes and, possibly, their workplaces. It is very important

to

identify and quantify the reasons why so many people are being made sick by

electrical pollution. Missing any one of the above " ingredients " of electrical

pollution may fail to find the real reason for a victim's sickness and cause

further suffering and danger. If several new viruses were causing death and

suffering throughout the world, surely the WHO would not simply say to

Governments

- " do not try to identify them " . Why, then, has the WHO ignored the

significant health damage already occurring in many countries because of

electrical

pollution? Is the WHO going to wait until a catastrophic amount of harm is

visible to all the population, before taking action?

My own situation is an example of the need to identify and measure the

different elements of electrical pollution. Considerable ground current

electricity

was found inside my home even when all of the electricity was disconnected.

High electrical fields were located throughout the basement and on the telephone

lines. Electromagnetic fields covered the whole house and were particularly

high at the outdoor drilled water well. Various low and high frequencies were

located on the electricity flowing through the house. I suffered a variety of

very adverse health symptoms and developed prostate cancer within one year of

living at my home. My wife and I have been unable to live in our own house for

ten months now, and we have been forced to find alternate accommodation

because the electrical utility company has refused to correct problems with

their

distribution system. Canadian health care and government authorities have failed

to provide any meaningful assistance or advice about our electrical pollution

problem. Without the assistance of an electronics expert who provided

detailed measurements, I would not have known what was causing my illness and

would

have probably continued to grow increasingly ill. Your recommendations enable

governments and utility companies to continue their bad and dangerous

practices, while at the same time leaving sufferers helpless to correct their

situations.

Within the last few weeks, I have been involved in three situations where the

measurement of victims' homes resulted in the discovery of dangerous

electrical pollution that was causing serious illness. In a rural house

northwest of

Toronto, a wireless plug-in telephone jack was causing massive amounts of high

frequency radiation inside the home. After the wireless jack and other

problematic items were unplugged, a female occupant of the home reported a

drastic

improvement to her health. She was able to walk properly, climb stairs, and

sleep all night, which she had not been able to accomplish previously. She also

reported that she was no longer experiencing many severe migraines, only "

normal " headaches. Only the use of special instruments located the problematic

devices that were causing so much harm.

Upon request, I recently attended in Toronto at the apartment of a woman who

was disabled by electrical pollution. A defective fluorescent light fixture in

the apartment below seemed to be the cause of very high levels of EMFs that

were emanating from the kitchen floor. In the bedroom of the same apartment,

near to the place where the victim's head lies when she is sleeping, a very high

amount of high frequency radiation was discovered coming from the wall. The

problem was eventually located in the next apartment, where an almost new

wireless telephone was found to be the source of extremely high amounts of radio

frequencies. This was a problem even when the telephone was not in use, and

simply resting in its cradle. Only careful testing with a variety of different

sensitive instruments managed to locate these very serious electrical pollution

problems. Unfortunately, the victim is so electrically hypersensitive that she

still suffers greatly. In her previous efforts to get help from doctors, she

had been referred to psychiatrists and had not been provided with any

meaningful help. The WHO recommendations actually encourage this type of

treatment by

failing, as an organization, to explore the connection between electrical

pollution and sickness, and by advising physicians not to search for causal

factors

when treating victims. Furthermore, the WHO undermines the serious nature of

this problem by advising governments that there are no grounds to use IEI as a

diagnostic classification.

In a different situation, in a rural home located west of Toronto, I found

another wireless telephone that was producing and transmitting very high levels

of high frequency radiation, but only when the telephone was turned on and in

use. The victim complained of tinnitus, severe ear pain in the area where the

receiver was normally held against her head, and severe pain linked to her

neck and back. In the short amount of time since this problem was identified and

she stopped using the wireless phone, the victim has reported that her

injuries have improved by fifty percent.

In the workplace of an assistant professor at a Canadian University,

extremely high levels of ground current electricity were located flowing through

his

office. He has developed such severe sensitivities to the electrical pollution,

that he cannot work in that office and is experiencing great difficulty

finding a place to live where he does not feel ill. A university office tower

located near his office houses many different broadcast and cell phone antennae.

Amongst the workers in the top floors of that tower, there are several persons

who have developed cancer.

In each of these situations, it was difficult to locate and identify the

cause of the harm. Even simple EMF measurements, which you discourage, would

have

been inadequate. The victims would have continued to be harmed, their quality

of life would have been degraded, and their lives would have been at risk. If

the WHO continues with its recommendations to discourage the measurement of

homes, you will be ensuring that many people will suffer, become ill, and

possibly die, and that the real causes of their sicknesses will not be

identified by

health authorities.

There are clear signs that electrical pollution is becoming a major health

problem throughout the developed world. The recommendations from this working

group will ensure that the WHO stays " willfully blind " to the causes of what

appears to be a major environmental disaster. This health threat is so

significant that the WHO should give it highest priority. Instead, your feeble

response

to date is compromising the safety of those you should be protecting.

In conclusion, I recommend that the health dangers of electrical pollution be

brought to the attention of all governments and health authorities throughout

the world. Also, thorough and complete testing of victims' homes should be

recommended to governments, health authorities and health care professionals, so

that the electrical pollution harming citizens can be identified. Only by

this means will the WHO be able to properly recognize the real causes of these

illnesses and be in a position to make recommendations for a safer world

environment in the future.

Yours sincerely,

Weatherall

Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist

with 30 years experience in the media. A former Toronto Sun and Kingston Whig

Standard columnist, she has also appeared on Newsmax.com, the Drudge Report,

Foxnews.com, and World Net Daily. Judi can be reached at:

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