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Like most Americans pursuing the dream, we have been keeping up with the ever growing need for cellphones, iPads for all of our homeschooling kids, Apple Watches to keep us all connected, faster WiFi and full home security systems, after all, we’re trying to provide the best for our family. Until December of 2024 spiraled our family on to a medical goose chase as mold exposure paired with these ever magnifying frequencies, sent our kids searching for reasons they didn’t feel good. To top it off, our sweet daughter alap came down with tic-borne Bartonella Henslae and Anaplasma bacterias that have radically jerked our family around leaving us running towards alternative answers for here very quickly cascading neurological symptoms that almost took her life 300 days in. Today we’ve had to move away from our home near the city (and many local towers and antennas), and search for medical attention to try to help her fully recover. Day 670, and we’ve yet to see her memory restored. How did we know to move away from all the frequencies? Our family-friend has a property on a mountain near our city created with low to no EMF exposure. His scientific studies and great love for our families recovery took our debilitated daughter to the mountain for a few days. After our third day, she was walking and kicking a soccer ball for the first time in over a year since she was in full time ballet classes like a normal 13 year old girl just a year prior. She has been the most significantly impacted with a hyper sensitivity to all of the exposures and today must refrain from family events, using all phone or RF exposing devices, unless she stays inside a small silver EMF canopy to shield her from it all. Her new awareness of exposures has left her unable to live a normal life, daily debilitation, and the bacterias continue aggressively suppressing her body as her immune system fights the issues inside and out. Walking away from our home, our sense of a “normal” family, and the hope to help her recover safely away from it all has moved us into a motorhome ready to go anywhere we can to give us peace and healing. We’re still learning about EMF’s, RF’s and cellphone exposure, but Avery can tell if it’s within 100 feet of her. It’s time to start learning about the negative implications of the ever progressing lives we all yearn to live. Thank you for reading.

I am a parent of two elementary-school children, commenting on HHS-OASH-2026-0397. I support wireless technology. I do not support treating the absence of a settled harm finding as if it were a finding of long-term safety for children. Criminal law puts the burden on the state before it punishes a person. Chronic exposure of a whole generation is not that kind of question. Where exposure is widespread, begins in early childhood, and will continue for decades, the burden should be on showing that exposure below current limits is safe enough for developing brains and bodies. That is the precautionary principle, and it is the right standard for this RFI. U.S. radiofrequency limits are built primarily on avoidance of tissue heating and date to 1996. Children now grow up with phones, Wi-Fi, wearables, and nearby infrastructure that did not exist when those limits were set. A child’s head is smaller, the skull is thinner, and the same external field can produce a higher localized absorption than in an adult. That is an exposure fact, not by itself proof of injury. It is enough to reject adult-only limits as a sufficient account of childhood exposure. I am not asking HHS to declare a mechanism or to ban the technology. I am asking the Department to stop leaving parents with reassurance in place of evidence. The questions that matter for my children are still open. What is the evidence, for and against, that long-term radiofrequency exposure below current federal limits affects neurodevelopment, sleep, attention, and mitochondrial function? How should cumulative exposure from phones, routers, school networks, and nearby antennas be added together, rather than assessed one device at a time? Which international guidelines use lower limits or added precaution for children, what evidence those guidelines rest on, and why the United States does or does not follow them? I ask HHS to do four things. First, publish a plain-language comparison of U.S. radiofrequency limits with international guidelines that apply lower limits or additional precaution for children, and state the evidence each standard actually rests on. Second, fund independent research on long-term, low-level exposure in children and adolescents, with sleep, attention, neurodevelopment, and mitochondrial function as priority endpoints. Industry-funded work should be identified as such. Third, issue practical guidance for schools and families that reduces exposure without abandoning the technology: distance from the body, wired connections where feasible, routers and devices out of sleeping areas, and phones off the body and away from the bed. Fourth, treat childhood exposure near schools and in homes as its own assessment, not as a scaled-down version of occupational or adult-phone exposure. My children will live their entire development inside whatever standard this review leaves in place. A limited evidence base is a reason for precaution and better science. It is not a reason to treat the question as closed.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a retired nurse. When I retired three years ago, my wish was to cut expenses as my income was fixed. I gave up cable TV as one of my monthly expenses that was very pricey. My cable provider provided WIFI I had always seen the " towers" and I knew that the phone companies used these towers and I never thought twice about their use. About 6 months after switching to WIFI, I began to experience serious joint pain. My knees, ankles and hips began to be an issue, not relieved with OTC pain medication. I started to read everything that I could on joint inflammation. I stumbled across something called Grounding. It was very ancestral...walking barefoot on grass, touching trees and foliage. I continued to research and came across "Grounding Sheets" I read that they were made especially for painful joints due to EMFs. They can be purchased over the internet. Unfortunately they are very expensive and it really is unknown their effectiveness over time.Not to mention that they aremade in CHINA The wire from the sheets are plugged in to the grounding hole on an outlet. I purchased and was truly amazed how effective they are .Unfortunately they do wear and in the past year or so I have purchased the sheets three times .I have actually thought about going back to Cable as it is the only way to .eliminate the extreme discomfort. The sheets are too expensive. Im hearing that the plan is to increase the wifi to 7G. If my joints are affected, what else is? Could be my brain. How about pregnant women? I'm looking for someone to come up with a solution about this very unknown situation

I lived in a rural area in Nebraska. In 1916 I started to become progressively sensitive to cell phones and cell towers. Verizon constructed two repeater cell towers; I lived in between them. When they turned the second one on I felt like an elephant sat on my chest and was in extreme pain. I had to live in my basement until we could sell our home. A home that I had worked 16 hour days, 5 1/2 days per week for years to buy. I had to leave my family, friends and a life I had taken years to build. No one is accountable, no one takes responsibility for the thousands affected. No one makes the research count. The research is there. Make it VISIBLE and spotlight the science that validates the harm.

I am a 70 year old woman. I moved to what is a corrupt and frighteningly controlling town. Someone (most likely from a nearby mega-church) installed masers in the crawl space under my house in 2019. The system is used to track my movements in the house, punish me when I say something to my husband they do not approve of, etc. The system is damaging my central nervous system (I am developing the shakes in my hands/forearms), severely damaged my right breast, is erasing memory, has carved up my legs, and possibly other physical damage. The people involved in this in part attend the mega-church; I refused to attend that church. The FBI was called in due to two adult sons of the woman across the street who attends the mega-church trespassed onto my property and used electronics to determine what outbuilding I was in. My constitutional rights are being severely violated: freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to assemble, the right to no searches without a warrant (my house and property are broken into on a regular basis and I have experienced I believe between $20,000 and $30,000 in theft and vandalism). The KBI has also been involved - the masers once was vibrating one of my teeth to the point that I thought it would explode; I went to a hotel and checked in. I told the woman at the desk that I did not want my location given out under any circumstances, and she then got in a huff and moved my room to one that was immediately above a room that the KBI was in. I was exposed to microwaves from portable mazers all night in my room. The room was paid for on my husband's card. I read an article in the Kansas Reflector that young girls are now being surveilled. If they are being treated like this it will damage their sense of boldness and courage, reducing them to obedient nothings. Plus their cells are multiplying much faster than an adult's. I have read that the symptoms I am experiencing are typical of masers, plus masers are cancer-causing. The masers are operated remotely and also have some programmed patterns as well (I am a retired IT professional). This is equipment that was developed for use in places like Afgahnastan (I am sure that spelling is incorrect, my apologies). The story is much longer, but I need to go rest. I believe that this equipment was put on sale to the American state governments and individuals because our Congress has been ridiculously irresponsible in creating the National Debt, and they are frantically scraping the bottom of the barrel for any possible source of revenue. SHAME ON YOU! FIX THIS!

Studies show that the human body is genetically designed to resist radiation because of millennia of sunlight exposure. The concern should thus be discounted, as the regulations in place work. For example, "Studies that are global baselines for proving that radiation causes cancer famously revealed a 'surprising' finding that contradicts public perception: the vast majority of atomic bomb survivors did not develop radiation-induced cancer." At Los Alamos, the Demon Core accident, where critical mass was achieved, showed that even during critical-mass radiation exposure, the subject needed to be holding the core or within feet of it to die.

EMF pollution has caused great sickness to me and my family. From the recent installation of the 5G towers (right across the street from a local High School where children are present), all the units hanging outside my home up and down the streets on local wires, transmitting areas, that keep growing, the radiation that comes out of my and my children's cell phones, the routers in our homes etc are destroying our health. It has caused the following: extreme headaches, brain fog, racing heart palpitations, insomnia, anxiety and depression, and the is all documented by our Integrative Doctor. We implore you to remove these dangerous units and access measures of EMF's that our harming us and our children.

Thank you for the opportunity! You MUST get in touch with Dr. Rhoda Alale, PhD. She has treated hundreds of people impacted by wireless radiation. When pastors in the Cogic denomination were dropping dead in the pulpit, she reports going to the churches to do NASA level testing of EMF and found excessively high levels caused by microphones and speaker equipment in the pulpit. She used her technology to reduce radiation to safe levels. She has treated people with Parkinson's caused by WF. I may be reached at 704-885-4315. I cannot reach her to get her permission to share her number; however, I will if you contact me.

I have experienced symptoms that I identify as electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) for approximately ten years. In the past, my condition was considerably more severe than it is today. I am currently doing much better, but this needs to be understood in the context of the way I have adapted my daily life to maintain very low exposure to electromagnetic fields. I try to live with minimal exposure in order to avoid returning to the severe condition I experienced previously. Maintaining this low-exposure baseline now allows me to tolerate occasional exposures, such as going to restaurants or traveling, generally with fewer consequences than in the past. In my experience, Wi-Fi exposure is associated with headaches and tension or pain in my neck and shoulders. When I hold or use a mobile phone or tablet, I experience tingling sensations in my hands. These symptoms occur during exposure and gradually decrease after the exposure ends. The time required for them to subside varies depending on the exposure. In the past, I lived in an apartment with a telecommunications antenna directly in front of it. While I lived there, my symptoms were persistent rather than occurring only during occasional exposures. At that time, I experienced headaches, neck and shoulder tension or pain, insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, and episodes involving symptoms that I now recognize as compatible with mast cell activation, although this had not been diagnosed at the time. This situation was one of the reasons I eventually decided to move. After moving and substantially reducing my everyday exposure, my improvement was slow and gradual, not immediate. Over time, however, I improved considerably. I continue to maintain a very low-exposure home environment. I believe this is important to mention because looking only at my current level of symptoms could give an incomplete picture: reducing exposure is part of how I organize my life in order to remain stable. I cannot establish from my personal experience alone that RF/EMF exposure caused my symptoms, nor can I prove that reducing exposure caused my improvement. What I can report is an approximately ten-year history in which I have repeatedly observed a temporal association between certain exposures and the onset of symptoms, a gradual reduction in symptoms after exposure ends, and long-term improvement while living in a low-exposure environment. I believe research into the potential health effects of RF/EMF exposure should include people who report persistent symptoms temporally associated with exposure, particularly individuals who may currently appear recovered or much less affected because they have substantially modified their environment. If research considers only current symptom severity without documenting the exposure-reduction or avoidance measures a person uses, important information may be missed. I also believe it is important to investigate the timing between exposure and symptom onset, recovery time after exposure ends, the effects of continuous or repeated exposure, and whether maintaining a low-exposure environment over long periods changes an individual's response to subsequent occasional exposures

Less than a year after I got an iPhone 5, back in 2012, a fatty cyst developed on the inside of my elbow. Doctors had it ultrasounded, and the only information that procedure produced was "it is very deep." I asked them to just cut it open and they refused, saying they want to aspirate it. People I know who have had fatty cysts aspirated learn that aspirating only angers the cyst and it grows. And so, I am at a standstill with western medicine, as they won't cut it open without aspirating. It is now 2026, the cyst is still there, not getting any bigger or smaller. IF only I were able to NOT use an iPhone for a year, I do know that it would start to slowly dissolve. ALSO everyone I know has tinnitus, including me. Can we please, somehow, get away from WiFi to see if that is what we are hearing? "Oh no!" says the audiologist! "You have tinnitus!" I wish that I could get away from WiFi long enough to hear. I cannot prove anything without getting away from WiFi and the world won't allow me to get away from WiFi. I feel trapped. I really do.