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Posted 2026-10-28#6818 · Permanent link ↗

Reports EHS and multisystem symptoms associated with workplace antenna exposure, improvement with shieldi…

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Dear Department of Health and Human Services: I am writing to ask that you to create Public Service Announcements to help educate and support the public in reducing their exposure to man-made Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), including WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular antennas, towers, etc. I am also writing to ask you to create regulations to help reduce the amount of man-made EMFs that are allowed in the public environment including: removing cell antennas and towers from schools, residential areas, shopping centers, and all highly populated areas; having all buildings hardwired with Ethernet internet access for all computers and phones; require industry to create hard-wired equivalent products for those who want to and need to reduced their man-made EMF load. Please ask Industry to: only use Infrared technology for remote controls; bring back hardwired options of stereos, headsets and all electronic devices; have non-SMART options for ALL appliances; have Ethernet ports in computers and laptops; have headphone jacks in computers, laptops and phones. Many years ago I rented an office across the street from a building that had cell antennas attached to its roof line. A window in my office had a direct line of site to one of the cell antennas. Over the years I developed symptoms of radio-frequency illness. I developed rashes on different parts of my body, fatigue, severe dry eye pains, severe lower leg cramps, tinnitus, loss of short term memory, inability to recall words/names, inability for my body to regulate heat, heart palpitations, insomnia, dizziness, headaches, joint pains. I felt like I had early onset dementia. I have developed Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity from the years of overexposure to the man-made Electromagnetic Fields. I discovered the source of all of my symptoms, after I measured the high levels of radio-frequency in my office with a HF35C Gigahertz Solutions meter. After talking to a Building Biologist, I decided to purchase SwissShield Naturell fabric to cover the entire wall facing the cell antenna. I slowly started to heal from the radio-frequency illness after I shielded my office. Other ways I protect myself on a daily basis is to keep my phone on airplane mode, use Ethernet connections for my computers and phone. I am one of the fortunate ones who figured out where my radio-frequency illness symptoms were coming from so I could protect myself and start to heal. There are so many others who are suffering needlessly from the impacts of constant exposure to man-made EMFs without knowledge of what is causing some of their health issues. Please start educating the public on a large scale so people can start to make choices on how they can make informed decisions on how to protect themselves and their loved ones in their homes, and how they use their wireless devices on a daily basis. Please create industry wide regulations to help reduce the amount of wireless devices and create hardwired equivalents to give their consumers a choice in reducing wireless exposures.

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Posted 2026-10-28#6806 · Permanent link ↗

Relays a deceased friend’s belief that breast and pancreatic cancers may have related to tower proximity …

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This is a second hand account from a sister of the heart, I was working on trying to get a cell tower banned from close contact in my residential neighborhood, I went to visit a very close friend who was dying of pancreatic cancer. Janet knew what I was fighting and on her death bed she was a voice that kept saying keep fighting this is important. This vibrant health nut friend who was always doing the right thing for health confided that she felt her original breast cancer (which she beat 20 years prior) was caused by a cell tower right behind her home in Seatlle. She moved, was able to beat the cancer and went on to have a productive healthy life. As an interior designer Janet would spend hours each day on site doing hands on work and managing projects, one very bad habit she had was carrying her cell phone in her back jeans pocket when working on a project. The last project Janet completed lasted more than a month and was located less than 500' from five- 5G antennas at the local cemetary. When working on this project for weeks as she worked on this project, the phone connected and reconnected to those towers thru her body hundreds of times per day. About a month after completing this whole house redesign, Janet got pancreactic cancer, she fought it the best she could. She would be telling this story but she died in 2023 from pancreatic Cancer, she told me she felt the cancer might have come back because of the phone in her back pocket and the proximity to the cell towers. I am sure you cant use second hand accounts, but I stilll had to relay Janets story, because she was my friend and she is not able to.
Posted 2026-10-28#6780 · Permanent link ↗

An aerospace engineer describes earlier RF research and personal precautions, proposes using cognitive-as…

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I am. Ph.D. In aerospace engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2010, I was a Sam Nunn Fellow, selected to be part of a program, addressing the intersection between science technology and policy. As part of this course, we were encouraged to do a research project on the intersection of science, technology with policy. For this project, I covered the history at the time related to the development of mobile telecommunications and the various effects of EMF radiation used in telecommunications on biological samples. I would be glad to share my findings at a later time. In short, after doing that research project, I never spoke with a cell phone by my ear for more than a 30 second call, rather always using wired headphones for any lengthy call and always keeping the phone away from my body. That practice remains until this day. Since 2010, the bandwidth of EMF radiation has only increased as the bandwidth of data transported through the devices has increased, going from 3G at the time to 5G and LTE today. Similar protocols dictate how I arrange wireless routers in my home. Since then, I have worked in the intersection between neuroscience and engineering, starting a company that works with the federal government, particularly the Army, until this day. As a company, we have focused on cognitive performance in a variety of high stakes, decision-making, environments, for instance, and supporting war fighter readiness. Our techniques have not been used to evaluate the effects of EMF on cognitive function, but there is reason to believe that they would be effective in doing so. Furthermore, a large sample of our clients are law-enforcement professionals and police. Routinely, we observe cell phone towers with 5G transmitters affixed to towers stationed on police and other civil administration properties. If the effects of EMF radiation from studies available in 2010 are any indication, projected forward today to the greater bandwidth of 5G and LTE technologies in 2026, it is very likely that a large source of radiative impact lands on the civil personnel that work underneath towers placed on these public properties. Again, the expertise of our company could be leverage to evaluate this potential claim. Mobile telecommunication act of 1996 has delivered incredible benefits in the delivery of information around the country and other parts of the world. The gradual expansion of commercially available bandwidth licensed from the federal government to private industry allows these information exchanges. However, it is unclear what role state and federal law-enforcement has to investigate claims of injury brought by the use of such bandwidth. Once the cause of liability has been properly assigned, if it exists at all, there is possibly a next step to pursue legal action in either state and/or federal venue. Both state and federal personnel are routinely exposed to mobile telecommunication sources, such as towers holding 5G transmitters. If these radiation sources are causing damage and a cognitive level, then they should be evaluated. For instance, the military currently uses the defense automated neural physiological assessment (DANA) to evaluate brain injury. Our company is currently working with the Walter Reed Hospital to develop a more sophisticated application to compliment this procedure, specifically aimed at mild traumatic brain injury. It is possible that a similar protocol could be used to evaluate cognitive performance effects and their extent for people living or working near mobile telecommunication sources. Using such tools, it may be possible even to re-develop cognitive performance that has been lost by exposure to radiation injury, in the same way that it is hypothesis currently that concussive brain injury can be either minimized or reversed with proper cognitive treatment. We are glad to help as possible. See deCervo.com for more about the company doing this work.
Posted 2026-10-28#6731 · Permanent link ↗

A retired military officer reports headaches and tremors following service exposure, criticizes the age a…

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Greetings, I experienced negative neurological symptoms (headaches, tremors, etc.) after extended exposure to EMFs in the US military. Subsequent investigations into the expansion of EMFs and their impact on the body led me to explore the safety research. Amazingly, I learned that the current guidance offered by the FCC uses exposure limits from the 1990s. Given the massive proliferation of all types of EMF systems (Cell towers, radars, data centers, etc.) any objective view would assess this as inadequate. More incredible, these exposure limits were based on behavioral studies in the 1980s involving 5 monkeys and 8 rats. Why current studies have not been done (as have been done in other countries) is a different issue. That they should be done isn't debatable. Please do your job and protect the public. Regards, Col. Edward J. Barr USMC (Ret)
Posted 2026-10-28#6721 · Permanent link ↗

Attributes extensive personal and others’ health problems to occupational radiation exposure, raises airp…

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DNA damage, skin damage, cellular replication failure, hair loss, sexual dysfunction, burns, rashes, brain injury, dizziness, other concussion symptoms, microbiome disruption, death, heart attack, stroke, organ failure, vascular disease, gastrointestinal distress, psychological conditions such as fatigue, memory loss, apathy, cancer, alzheimers, sleep loss, and other quality of life issues are pervasive in my life and others' lives due to radiation exposure in my career. Camoflauge technology hides the damage done to the human and environment so collecting accurate data is critically challenged and contested in the field. My own personal experiences go beyond what is documented in some research. Radiation intensity surrounding airports and military bases give electrosmog articles credibility when projects are costing people their bodies, time, money, and potentially their entire lives being cut short.
Posted 2026-10-28#6701 · Permanent link ↗

Reports a sister-in-law’s EMS and disability following a school Wi-Fi installation, describes limiting gr…

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My sister-in-law has suffered from EMS since her school installed a super wi-fi system to power tablets for all students. As a result, she had to take disability since she could no longer work in the school environment without suffering severe symptoms. This was over 12 years ago and despite everything she has done to mitigate her exposure to wi-fi, cell services, radar, and more, her entire life has never been the same. Since reading more articles about the adverse effects of 5G and other radiation fields, we no longer allow our grandchildren to use wireless services or cell phones. The impact on our health needs to be better studied as it has been in Europe and elsewhere.
Posted 2026-10-28#6699 · Permanent link ↗

Describes progressive wireless sensitivity after networking work, repeated relocations, migraines and los…

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I am Daniel Vasku, a Dutch citizen, trained in media and image technology, with a lifelong love for technology. After moving to New Zealand I helped organise festivals and events, doing everything from my smartphone, with me 24-7. While setting up wireless networks and video systems for these festivals, I built a mesh network at a rural venue out of consumer Linksys routers. One day, after hours configuring a stack of four active routers, I felt a strange spastic tingling in my right arm, the one nearest the stack. Over the following summer I developed persistent nose congestion, brain fog, painful joints and fatigue. I assumed it was hay fever, but it made no sense that the symptoms lasted for months while we travelled to completely different places. The turning point came in Golden Bay NZ, at the home of a friend who had deliberately restricted his Wi-Fi. While he explained this, I realised that every time I switched my phone on, I felt a brief stabbing pain in my brain. Minutes later the sting returned, and my girlfriend had just powered her phone on. That confirmation made me take the possibility seriously. For the next two or three years I stayed skeptical, but the pattern held: whenever my phone and Wi-Fi were off and I avoided close exposure, I felt much better. In a shared home where Wi-Fi was kept off except when needed, I repeatedly told housemates it was on when they were sure it wasn't, and I was always right. I learned to trust the specific head pressure that came with wireless signals. A few years ago I visited family in Europe, and my condition worsened dramatically: relentless headaches, growing joint pain, visible decline. Eventually I could no longer function, and a friend urged me back to New Zealand. In a small, reception-free valley in Auckland I recovered almost immediately. So I bought my first meter, a Cornet. In a room where everything was powered down, it revealed a pulsing signal coming from my Apple Pencil, whose Bluetooth pulses around the clock. After boxing it up outside the room, I slept that night, for the first time in ages, without the head pressure that so often became a full migraine. With renewed energy I started a sauerkraut business at a Sunday market. It went well, but every market day was followed by a migraine, and recovery grew from one day to two, three, then a full week of pain. When the owner of a new venue told me a cell tower was going on the roof with strong indoor repeaters, I realised I had to quit. When savings ran out, I moved to a rural community in the Coromandel. There, with almost no cell reception, my health picked up tremendously. But my sensitivity kept increasing. One or two hours in town cost me severe headaches the next day. I tried shielding: first a silver-coated veil, which helped, then a full radiation suit from China made of stainless steel and cotton, which let me shop without next-day migraines, at the cost of looking odd, overheating badly in sunlight, and sensitivity to AC electric fields. Even that was not enough. People using a phone in a neighbouring room triggered headaches before I even saw the device, and I was always right. I began carrying my meter constantly as an alarm system, because by the time I felt pain it was already too late. About five years ago my condition worsened again despite shielding. My meter showed levels higher than before, and the timing coincided with the switch-on of 5G in the town. I found a new community in Golden Bay in the South Island, verified it with more sensitive equipment like the Safe & Sound ProII, which registers the far lower levels at which I now react, and moved there. Today I can function outdoors with a clear head and no pain. But I can visit town only briefly once a week, still paying one or two days of migraine even with the suit, and I live in near-total social isolation, a hard adjustment for a social person. And with all pervasive wireless radiation, it's difficult to access healthcare. I am de facto an EMF refugee. An example: a friend came for tea and swore he had left his phone in the car. Within minutes I became nauseous and started stuttering. My meter found active AirPods in his pocket emitting about 16,000 microwatts per square metre. In ten minutes, from two metres away, they cost me my train of thought. I am desperately looking for an EMF sanctuary where I can function as a human being among people who keep wireless off. In the meantime I have helped many others with similar symptoms, using calibrated meters to find and eliminate sources, and it is clear that this problem is growing. I am deeply troubled by what this means for children, and for humans, animals, plants and insects. We are gambling with the future of humanity in what may be the most irresponsible open-air experiment ever undertaken. The more people learn about Electromagnetic Radiation Syndrome, the more will recognise their own unexplained suffering in it.
Posted 2026-10-28#6681 · Permanent link ↗

A French-language commenter reports diagnosed electrosensitivity after laboratory exposures, disability r…

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je suis une femme dont l'electrosensiblite et a ete diagnostiquée en 2015 par le Pr Belpomme a PARIS. technicienne dans un laboratoiren j'etais exposée au quotidien sur mon lieu de travail au DECT , a la wifi et a beaucoup d'appareils electriques j'avais elegalement mon telephone portable, DECT et wifi a la maison symptomes, fatigue chronique importante, douleur musculaires , troubles digestifs, mauvais sommeil, brouillard cerebral,maus de tete, arythmie cardiaque, echodoppler cerebral montrant plusieurs zones tres mal vascularisée j'ai terminée en invalidité, a la maison, avec eviction, beaucoup de symptomes se sont atténué voir disparus, mais je dois vivre reclue dans une zone peu desservie par la telephonie, j'ai ete obligée d"arreter de travailler a 50ans et de vivre avec une pension d'invalidité impossible d'avoir une vie normale, desociabilisation , impossible de faire des courses de façon reguliere pour manger ou s'habiller , aller chez lke medecin ou voir des specialistes en clinique est compliqué ...chaque exposition se paie a coup de gros symptomes
Posted 2026-10-28#6658 · Permanent link ↗

Reports a spouse’s illness after a school Wi-Fi upgrade, with inability to work, travel and participate s…

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Greetings - I am writing to provide first hand knowledge of the effects of EMFs, RF radiation and wireless radiation exposure on the public, and more specically, my wife. My lovely, outgoing wife was a dedicated, hard working school teacher who loved her profession and her ability to interact with children. Approximately 11 years ago, my wife's school district upgraded it's wi-fi system, thereby over saturating the school's teachers, staff and students with EMFs, RFs and wireless radiation. She along with other teachers immediately felt ill from the radiating wireless routers. The results on my wife have been devastating. She now suffers from headaches, burning skin, foggy headness and multiple other symptoms. Tragically, this all could been avoided had the school district heeded the warnings of multiple experts who warned of the consequences of oversaturating the school with wireless routers. In addition to my wife's symptoms, the resulting harm has had a profound effect on our lives together. My wife cannot travel, even for short distances, without experiencing symptoms. We can only spend limited time at restaurants, movies or with friends at their homes. My wife can no longer work which has caused us a substantial financial burden. In all, the results of these exposures have been devastating. The effect of EMFs, RFs and wireless radiation on the public must be studied and regulated in the hopes that these injuies will be prevented from harming innocent people in the future. Water in a reservoir can be helpful to people. Once the reservoir is broken and water comes flooding through the dam, the effects are devastating. Such is the case with EMFs, RFs and wireless radiation. The dam is about to break. There are already numerous studies showing biological harm. Here are some: https://www.americansforresponsibletech.org/science https://ehtrust.org/science/# Physicians for Safe Technology | Military and Government Reports
Posted 2026-10-28#6653 · Permanent link ↗

A teacher reports extreme EMF sensitivity during breast-cancer recovery, symptoms in wireless-equipped cl…

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I have had complications from EMF since 2021 when I contracted COVID and this resulted in Long COVID symptoms that continue to plague me to today. I am a 30 year teacher and since the onset of technology being pushed in every school, I have had symptoms of erratic heartbeat, anxiety, depression, muscle tightness, inability to sleep at night. I see chronically in my students the same symptoms including eye pain and headaches. In 2019 my classroom included my laptop, a smart TV, Chromebooks that are one to one with students and even my very own router placed above my classroom door. In 2026, I found a lump in my left breast and am being treated for breast cancer. However, I have EMf Ultrasensitivity that is complicating my recovery. My breast works as an internal "antenna" for EMF. Smartphones and Laptops and especially my router are the worst offenders! I have a large burn mark all over my left breast. The skin is like cooked and microwaved meat. My cells are weak in my breast and cannot fend off the EMF waves. The skin is burned. I cannot handle being in the overwhelming environment at school with all the wireless technology and routers and fluorescent lights. The lights also trigger my untrasensitivity. My day at school creates an electric shock or zing that feels and it does burn my skin and breast. My breast is hard and my muscles around my breast and to my back become tight and ache unbearably by the end of the day. I cannot attend large gatherings or social functions where there are security camera, checkout lanes, routers, cell phones or computers of any kinds. It is difficult to go to grocery stores or do any other shopping. Walmart is the worst. School is one of the most polluted environments for me in my life currently. I will be retiring in May of 2027 due to the toxic radiation from EMF and how it is literally cooking me and killing me. At home, I have my laptop landline wired and my phone is also landline enabled. We turn our wifi off at night. My smartmeter on my house literally traps me indoors and on bad days, I feel it through the house wall. At school, my laptop is ethernet wired and my smart TV and router are unplugged. However, when the teacher next door has her students on their Chromebooks, it fries me in my classroom as it goes through the walls. I have no safe place in my public school. I worry what this is doing to all the young people's brains and health in a very very toxic school environment. If I could have a clean environment from EMF or at least little to none, I would be farther along on my cancer recovery journey if not already at full health. There is not a doubt in my mind whatsoever, as I am LIVING this, that EMF is very very dangerous to humans. This dangerous EMF is literally killing me. Please turn off and/or regulate 5g,4g,3g, etc and low EMF waves in our country and the world.

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