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The dangers of the mobile phone: fantasy or reality?
As the number of people suffering from electrohypersensitivity continues to increase, Europe reacts in a dispersed order. Meanwhile, telephone operators continue to dictate their health standards, with impunity, as the survey of the week shows.
Illness or not sickness?
Burning sensations, nausea, headache, insomnia, digestive disorders, memory loss ... The list of symptoms of electromagnetic hypersensitivity is long. However, it is still not recognized as a disease in its own right. In a study published in 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes the existence of symptoms but does not establish a causal link with exposure to the waves. The organization adds that there are "certain indications that these symptoms may be due to pre-existing psychiatric illnesses as well as stress reactions resulting from fear of possible health effects from EMF [electromagnetic fields]. "Le Point magazine devoted a file to the question called" Should we fear electromagnetic waves ".
No scientific consensus in Europe
While Sweden considers electrohypersensitivity as a handicap, France does not officially recognize it as a disease. The subject has however started to be discussed in France. Last April, for the first time, a man suffering from electrohypersensitivity was compensated for his pathology. In Switzerland, there is even the first building in Europe specially designed for electrohypersensitive people.
In 2011, the Council of Europe formally asked “to pay particular attention to people suffering from electromagnetic field intolerance syndrome and to take special measures to protect them, for example by creating uncovered“ white areas ” by wireless networks. »Precautionary measures that displease telephone operators. The latter often block initiatives aimed at framing exposure to electromagnetic waves. Vox Pop shows in its investigation that many studies made on the possible dangerousness of the portable are partly financed by the telephone companies themselves. There is reason to doubt the reliability of these studies.
Nadine Ayoub