Chanthy Leang's List: WiFi Radiation and Human Body

• could lead to a health crisis similar to those caused by asbestos, smoking and lead in petrol.
• vulnerable groups, such as children
• The German government is already advising its citizens to use wired internet connections instead of Wi-Fi and landlines instead of mobile phones.

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• And when another reporter asked if they could provide medical proof on the harmful effects of wireless technologies, they also said they did not have any.
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   “For WiFi, the exposure to the transmission can be up to a 300m radius from a single access point, while for WiMAX, it is about 50km
• “The exposure to the transmission can affect the children’s immune systems. It may also cause cancer or other illnesses.
• Lim also said that a World Health Organisation report concluded that the amount of non-ionizing radiation absorbed by a person’s body from a WiFi station is less than one-fifth that received from FM radio and television sets.
• HARIAN Metro front-paged a report that more than eight per cent of residents interviewed in Taman Subang in Kelana Jaya were found to be suffering from cancer compared to under one per cent for Malaysians in general -
• The cases were reported after a telecommunications tower was put up in the residential area 10 years ago
• “According to a study by the European Union, exposure to extremely low-frequency and radio-frequency electromagnetic fields could damage chromosomes, alter gene activity and accelerate cell proliferation,”
• She said the study indicated that there was a possibility that anyone with cancer cells at an early stage risked having cancer proliferated on entering Taman Subang and being exposed to EMF.

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• The Effects Of Radiation In The Cause Of Cancer

• studies have shown that electromagnetic radiation of the level emitted by laptops with wireless is of concern to small children.
• Research from Sweden, Britain and the U.S. has found that EMFs of the level emitted by cellphones and wireless technology do impact the human body and may be linked to symptoms like headache, fatigue, tinnitus, memory deficits, irregular heart beat and some cancers.
• children should not put laptop computers with Wi-Fi connections on their lap because of the health risks.

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• Wireless networking communication products - how safe are they?
• What potential impact on health does non-ionizing radiation bring
• n increase in body temperature and thus may bring damage to internal organs.
• perturb the human    body's own weak electromagnetic field, causing stimulation of nerves and muscles.
• Wi-Fi facilities send out non-ionizing radiation, but according to research, the intensity of radiation is less than 1% of that from common mobile telephone

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• The Environment Ministry recommended that people should keep their exposure to radiation from Wi-Fi "as low as possible" by choosing "conventional wired connections". It added that it is "actively informing people about possibilities for reducing personal exposure".
• "because people receive exposures from many sources and because it is a new technology and all the research into its health effects has not yet been carried out".

• Is Wi-Fi bad for you?
• There are reasons to believe Wi-Fi networks are safer than mobile phones. Because they only have to transmit a few tens of metres, Wi-Fi networks run at much lower power. The Health Protection Agency says a person sitting within a Wi-Fi hot spot for a whole year receives the same dose of radiowaves as a person using a mobile phone for 20 minutes.

• Wi-fi health fears are 'unproven'

• As part of its investigation, Panorama visited a school in Norwich, with more than 1,000 pupils, to compare the level of radiation from a typical mobile phone mast with that of wi-fi in the classroom. 

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   Readings taken for the programme, broadcast on BBC One on Monday, showed the height of wi-fi signal strength to be three times higher in the school classroom than the main beam of radiation intensity from a mobile phone mast
• the intensity of wi-fi radiation is 100,000 times less than that of a domestic microwave oven.
• The type of radiation emitted by radio waves (wi-fi), visible light, microwaves and mobile phones has been shown to raise the temperature of tissue at very high levels of exposure - called a thermal interaction - but there is no evidence that low levels cause damage.

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• Most Wi-Fi systems and some cordless phones operate at the exact same frequency as a microwave oven,
• Most Wi-Fi systems and some cordless phones operate at the exact same frequency as a microwave oven,
• Wi-Fi is always on and always radiating
• Scientists usually divide the electromagnetic spectrum into “ionizing” and “non-ionizing.” Ionizing radiation, which includes x-rays and atomic radiation, causes cancer.
• Non-ionizing radiation, which includes microwave radiation, is supposed to be safe.
• Every piece of electronic equipment should have a universal chip on them
• Please check out this website and order a sixpack of chips for your equipment. Then you don’t have to worry about it.

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• Scientists reject Panorama's claims on Wi-Fi radiation risks