MEDIA RELEASE
(4th June 2018)
EMF Awareness Day: 11th June 2018
Introduction
Some children and adults are made ill by Wi-Fi and similar wireless devices like mobile phones. This is an increasingly common condition, with symptoms like headaches, disturbed sleep, heart palpitations, skin problems, anxiety or depression. In bad cases people affected can lose their jobs or social life. Electromagnetic Fields Awareness day is on 11th June, three years after Jenny, a 15-year-old school girl, took her life after her school refused to switch off the Wi-Fi.
On June 11, 2015, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny Fry, took her life. She had been suffering health effects at her school from its Wi-Fi. Although warned by her parents, the school chose to accept reassurances from government that there was no consistent evidence that this could happen and so refused to provide an area without this radiation.
Jenny was not alone in suffering from what is known as Electromagnetic Sensitivity, also known as Microwave Sickness. It can cause symptoms of illness in children and adults. These symptoms vary from mild to severe, especially if people already have low immunity. Sufferers experience symptoms when they are exposed to electromagnetic fields, even at much lower intensities than the government’s permitted levels of radiation.
Symptoms of Electromagnetic Sensitivity can go from having a simple headache or heart palpitations to anxiety and depression caused by the increasing saturation of wireless radiation coming from Wi-Fi, mobile phones, phone masts, cordless phones, and smart meters. Anxiety and depression seem to be on the rise among some school children and university students.
Jenny’s mum, Debra Fry, is keen to warn other parents of the health problems of Wi-Fi. Relatively few doctors are aware of the rapidly growing science concerning the condition and some still confuse this physical intolerance or allergy with a different condition, a psychological fear called Electrophobia. Although some tribunals and employers have accepted the physical condition since 2012, this lack of knowledge among others has led to people losing their jobs, homes or even, as in Jenny’s case, their lives.
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Recent UK coverage 2 ES-UK Media Release: EMF Awareness day 11th June 2018
Recent UK coverage:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/school-wifi-networks-could-put-12602188 School wifi networks ‘could put children’s health at risk’ as grieving mum tells of daughter’s wifi ‘allergy’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6387357/cancer-expert-wifi-schools-pupils-radiation/ Cancer expert claims school wifi networks could put pupils at risk because they ‘absorb radiation’
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/top-mobile-phone-firms-warning-12637044
Top mobile phone firms warning shareholders over devices’ possible cancer risks – but fail to tell customers
Oxford Today has just published an article on wireless tech and health:
http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/opinion/wireless-tech-time-think-again
Wireless tech: time to think again?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/switch-off-mobiles-at-10pm-to-stay-happy-8wm9qpmrz
Switch off mobiles at 10pm to prevent mood disorders
Huge study links late phone use with poor sleep, depression and unhappiness.
Silent killer in your bedroom… a mobile phone
Mobile phones should be turned off before bed, the chief medical officer has advised as she warned that the cocktail of pollution caused by modern life was a risk to health.
Dame Sally Davies said there were “real concerns” about how everything from shampoo to smartphone screens could cause disease and scientists needed to start measuring the risk better.
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