Allergic to Wi-Fi? Go to West Virginia
September 16th, 2011
The condition called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (or EHS for short) is pretty controversial. If you believe that it exists, then symptoms might include headaches, skin burning, muscle twitching and chronic pain. Those who believe they are afflicted by it blame it on exposure to electromagnetic fields from mobile phones, Wi-Fi and other equipment.
Others are not so sure this condition even exists. Maybe there is something to it, or maybe it is Psychosomatic. Either way, about 5% of Americans believe they suffer from it. And they have now found relief in the form of a place where they can be free of electromagnetic fields. That place is Green Bank, West Virginia, a certified radio-free zone. It’s part of the US Radio Quiet Zone, where wireless is banned across 13,000 sq miles. This prevents transmissions from interfering with radio telescopes in the area.
I don’t know if EHS is a real illness or not. This world is full of strange things and it works in mysterious ways, so I wouldn’t dismiss is completely. I just hope they don’t all drop their tin-foil hats at the border on the way in and make a big mess, because the place looks lovely.
[via BBC]
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EHS is only psychosomatic! It is only imagination of stupid people. Here are two examples:
In Austria in one smaller city new cell phone towers were erected. Everybody in the city complained about head aches. So the mobile phone provider was ordered by the city council to switch off the network. The funny thing is that the network had not been connected yet and nothing ever had been switched on yet.
I have a friend who says, he can not use any smartphone as he feels the electromagnetic waves and he gets headaches after 5-10 minutes. He is using a Sony Ericsson phone, where he switched off UMTS and everything else which is not needed for making phone calls. So I gave him my android phone for testing but first I put it in flight mode (switches off ALL radio). After 5 minutes he said he gets headache and he can not use that phone either.