Children & vulnerable groups

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 concerned member of the public. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

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 concerned member of the public. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

HELP BRING AWARENESS TO CIVILIANS WITH HAVANA SYNDROME! PLEASE REPOST and tag Sec. Kennedy Open Letter to HHS Sec. Kennedy: Direct CDC to Act on Havana Syndrome in the U.S. Population October 7, 2026 Secretary Kennedy: Did you know that as you are reading this letter, your CDC is arguing in federal court that it has no duty to act on Havana Syndrome in Americans, and that no court can make it? I am a physician who maintains a civilian registry of patients diagnosed with Havana Syndrome, which federal agencies call anomalous health incidents (AHI). In 2025 I petitioned CDC to treat AHI as a civilian public health matter. CDC replied only that the request "falls outside the agency's purview to respond, so did not respond," and forwarded it to the National Institutes of Health. NIH has not responded. In Ber v. CDC, No. 8:26-cv-01822, the government moved on October 5, 2026 to dismiss, arguing that CDC has no legally required duty to act. Think of the optics. Your CDC is telling a federal court that a novel medical condition affecting the U.S. Population, including children, confirmed by expert physician diagnoses and causing severe neurological harm, is not its concern, and it is prepared to defend that position through legal maneuvering. You can fix this in one decisive sweep. You can direct CDC and NIH to: 1. Publish a Havana Syndrome (AHI) case definition in MMWR. 2. Establish a civilian reporting mechanism, as CDC already has for its own employees. 3. Add Havana Syndrome (AHI) to national surveillance. 4. Open an NIH civilian AHI research program with a funding opportunity. 5. Name an HHS Havana Syndrome (AHI) coordinator. None of this needs new legislation or prejudges cause or attribution. These patients are asking to be counted and studied. Your CDC says it has no duty to act; your NIH has not acted. We are fighting this in court, and I respectfully ask you to do your part. Len Ber, MD Medical Director Civilian Registry for Diagnosed Havana Syndrome Patients CivilianRegistry@protonmail.com

About 10 years ago consumers energy came to my house and forced us to let them put a smart meter. Almost immediately I started getting migraines. I didn't have a history of migraines. Our family was relatively healthy and once the meter was installed. We all started getting sick easily. We didn't sleep well through the night anymore and our children's behavior was erratic. We can't afford their fees to keep the thing off our house. But the health issues got so severe that one of our family members paid for it to get removed. We pay extra on our electric bill every month to keep it off our house. The sad part was there isn't much information about those meters and the amount of radiation they put off. The only good thing about California government is they have those banned. So the only only information I could find that went against those smart meters was out of California. Once the meter was removed off our house, everybody went back to normal. Relatively quickly. My migraines went away overnight and everybody started feeling better and behavior went back to normal. The only thing that had changed during that time was the meter itself. I probably have documentation someplace on my computer about going back and forth with consumers energy. There's a lot of back and forth arguments. DTE energy tried to put a smart meter on our house and I flat out refused it. They weren't so bad to work with. But I don't believe we should be paying extra fees to keep the radiation out of our house.

I would like to see the study. Most of all if it is harmful to all of us and then what can be done to protect our children, health, and our environment. Thank you, Yvonne Dalke

We live in Tom’s River NJ and have an autistic child. There are several towers in the area. We are very concerned about EMF exposure. Our entire family is experiencing health issues.

I do not believe most are considering the cumulative effects of emf radiation. You cannot escape it. I have personally been involved in fighting against cel towers placed in 1st a residential neighborhood back yard! & 2ndly in a small neighborhood park in a picnic area that both Verizon & the City of San Diego felt was just fine to have a picnic with a cel tower overhead! Honestly we should be able to use health issues to fight these towers or 5g on street lights in our neighborhoods in our parks and schools. It is getting out of hand and from my personal experience the powers that be will erect and or place these towers and or cells without regard to human safety. Thank you

Mine and my daughter's lives have been basically destroyed by EMF. We lived in the Minneapolis area when they were a test city for 5G. We didn't know that at the time that we became ill. Once we figured out what was making us sick and we looked back to see what day they installed it, it was the day that we got sick. We became so bad we had to move. I lost my family and my friends and my job. Now I have to do it all over again and move again because of too much 5G/5G advanced. It gives my daughter and I headaches, nausea diarrhea, vomiting. Sometimes I feel like I was kicked in the back of the head repeatedly. It causes great fatigue, dizziness, difficulty thinking, difficulty breathing, difficulty walking/moving. We do not use Wi-Fi in our home and we have very few electronics in our home. It is not our home that is the problem. It is the environment that we live in. I cannot go into stores. I cannot go to big cities. I have difficulty even being in a small town. It has absolutely destroyed our lives. We are not the only ones suffering like this. There are those of us who feel it more than others, but I see increasing numbers of people who are complaining of having issues with 5G/EMF. As we raise the amount in our environment, there are more people getting sick. You need to look at the large body of research that exists on this topic and we need to get rid of 5G and go back to 4G. Whether people like it or not, this push for AI is going to kill us all. I want to stress at the end here, that my daughter and I didn't know 5G was taking place when we became ill. This is not something in our head and we do not have anxiety or depression. Things happen to us and we look for what might be bothering us and then we find it. It is not something That we worry about on a daily basis or consumes our thoughts. We try to live our life the best way that we can, which is not much left of it. This is not a case of people thinking it bothers them when it doesn't. And this is not a case of someone's anxiety driving the condition.I do not know how to attach some of the research that is available, but there are more than 11,000 pages as of 2022 and there is more research in the last few years as well. You need to make use of reading this information!

I am very grateful that this is being addressed. Thank you for paying attention. This is extremely important my daughter has felt direct physical effect of living in very close proximity to a cell tower. We need to reduce exposure to environment and animals and humans.

Please investigate proximity to power lines. Regulatory guidelines say 200 feet from living dwellings is considered “safe”. It’s not. EMF and radiation emissions from lines need to be much farther away. Compounded exposure from other devices in addition to these are dangerous and impact human health and interfere with natural biorhythmic well being. Impact to bodily processes can cause everything from cancer to sleeplessness, headaches, tinnitus, nausea, inability to concentrate and many other diseases and symptoms. Children, immunocompromised people, and the elderly are likely even more detrimentally affected. Thank you for investigating and please take action on these measures.