Title :
Nocebo: Reading this column may affect your health [AP-S Turnstile]
Author :
Bansal, Rajeev ; Bansal, Rajeev
Author_Institution :
Dept. of ECE, Unit 1157 University of Connecticut 371 Fairfield Road Storrs, CT 06269-1157 USA
Abstract :
In a column [1] published some years ago, I mentioned the following interesting case from France: Family members described complaints ranging from a metallic taste in the mouth to nosebleeds, all attributed to a cell phone tower recently installed across from their apartment building. The family even covered the apartment windows with aluminum foil and other ??protective f lters?? to ward off the ill effects of the radiation from the tower. For its part, the operator of the cell phone tower (Orange) dryly noted that the electronic bay for the tower had not been installed yet and, therefore, the tower was not even active.
Keywords :
Cellular phones; Electromagnetic fields; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Poles and towers; Safety; Telecommunications; Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS); health effects of EM fields;
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAP.2013.6781726