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In October 1998 at the University of Vienna Workshop on Possible Biological and Health Effects of Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, [ref. 15] the following resolution was adopted by the participating scientists (the "Vienna Resolution"):
"The participants agreed that biological effects from low-intensity exposures are scientifically established. However, the current state of scientific consensus is inadequate to derive reliable exposure standards. The existing evidence demands an increase in the research efforts on possible health impact and on adequate exposure and dose assessment."
In his summary report [ref. 13], Dr. Cherry concludes:
"Scientific studies at the cellular level, whole animal level and involving human populations, show compelling and comprehensive evidence that
RF/MW exposure down to very low levels, levels which are a minute fraction of present "safety standards", result in altered brain function, sleep disruption, depression, chronic fatigue, headache, impaired memory and learning, adverse reproductive outcomes including miscarriage, still birth, cot death, prematurity and birth deformities. Many other adverse health effects have been found, predominantly cancer of many organs, especially brain cancer, leukemia, breast cancer and testicular cancer. Studies have also found that
RF/MW exposed parents have more children with CNS cancers and other health defects. These effects are consistent with genetic damage caused by
RF/MW. Many scientific studies have found chromosome aberrations and DNA damage with
RF/MW exposure, the first being published in 1959. Two primary biological mechanisms are linked to these effects, calcium ion efflux and melatonin reduction. With melatonin reduction, there is a rise in serotonin which is associated with
awakeness, alertness, anxiety, anger, rage and violence depending on the serotonin level, the person and the circumstances.
Hence, there is strong evidence that ELF and RF/MW is associated with accelerated aging (enhanced cell death and cancer) and moods, depression, suicide, anger, rage and violence, primarily through alteration of cellular calcium ions and the
melatonin/serotonin balance."
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