The Invisible Disease: The Dangers of Environmental Illnesses Caused by Electromagnetics Fields and Chemical Emissions

The dangers of environmental illnesses caused by electromagnetic fields and chemical emissions. - The evidence that VDUs, mobile phones, electric lights and other modern appliances can make you ill.

In 1962 Rachel Carson in Silent Spring opened the world's eyes to the dangers of insecticides and weedkillers and other common products leaking dangerous chemicals into the food chain, In the intervening decades other dangers have been recognised after years of opposition from manufacturers, such as that both smoking and asbestos can be fatal.

Today we are facing a powerful new concern. It involves millions of people, particularly in the West, who are ill even though their doctors can't make a proper diagnosis. Environmental illnesses are known under a number of names, like Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME), Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Electro-Hypersensitivity, Sick Building Syndrome.

These illnesses have variously been linked to VDUs, mobile phones and masts, electric lights, TVs, and chemicals used in the manufacture of modern appliances.

This is the first book to make the connections between the range of illnesses and the range of appliances. The result of many years research, often under difficult conditions, it highlights what many scientists in different fields are warning-that we now have dangerous chemicals embedded in the manufacture of everyday appliances that we mistakenly consider safe. And they're not.

Gunni Nordstrom is an investigative journalist in Sweden, the world-wide centre of the mobile phone industry, where much of the research on Environmental Illness has been carried out. She has published several books on health problems related to computer screens, Sjuk av bildskarm Tiden 1989, 9155034845, Faltslaget Tiden 1995, 9155040837, Morklaggning Hjalmarson & Hogstedt 2000, 9189080416.

Sample Press Coverage on the increasing awareness of the dangers of electromagnetic fields: 25 April 03 - The Daily Telegraph: ‘residents of a hamlet near a mobile phone mast have recorded high levels of illness, including seven cases of cancer, raising fresh concerns over the safety of the transmitters.’ 13 September 03 - New Scientist The report recommended (by William Stewart) a “precautionary appraoch” towards the use of mobile phones, especially among children. 25 June 03 - Daily Mail - Dr Dariusz Leszczynski and his colleagues from the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority reported that low-level phone radiation can cause ‘stress’ reactions in cells isolated from human blood vessesls...19 June 02 - Evening Standard - Radiation from mobile phones causes changes to human cells which could pose risks to health, an authoritative two-year study has concluded.’ 03 New York Times - ‘To date, hundreds of former IBM workers have contracted cancers they claim are linked to the chemicals they used while working at the company, including blood and brain tumors, leukemia and many cases of breast cancer.’ - This is a small selection of recent news items on the subject.

Written by veteran Swedish journalist Gunni Nordström has been published by O Books in the U.K. and will soon be available in the U.S. Nordström has written a number of other books on health risks associated with computer work and EMFs, but this is the first to be translated into English. She pays special attention to electromagnetic and chemical hypersensitivity.