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Dr. George Carlo statement on children and mobile-phone use
USA Created: 4 Nov 2009
As you know, my first warning on children using cell phones came in 1999 and was echoed loud and clear in my Invisible Hazards book in 2001.
This is not new.
We were concerned then about children being more susceptible to radiation damage than adults because of their active brain development, exposed DNA and deeper penetration of electro-magnetic radiation into their smaller heads.
A decade later, we have data confirming those fears: the most recent Hardell study showing the highest risk of brain tumors in people who began using cell phones as teenagers; observations in young people and controlled experiments of cell phone related behavioral anomalies, learning difficulties, and stunted social development; and we know that the cell phone infrastructure is playing a role in the current Autism epidemic.

But, while those observations are being debated amongst scientists and policy makers, a more serious problem is growing under the radar.
Most alarming is that we understand clearly the mechanism of harm for cell phone related damage, including epigenetically induced maladaptation.
In effect, the mechanistic data portend that cell phone radiation exposure in this most vulnerable population of young people is adversely altering the genome of an entire future generation. With the pervasive penetration of cell phone use in teenagers globally, an unprecedented and insidious genetic experiment has reached global dimensions -- and no one can predict with any degree of certainty, where it might lead.

Controlling cell phone use in young people is not a choice. It is an urgent necessity.

Related news:
Oct 2009, USA: New Analysis Reaffirms Long-Term Tumor Risk
Mar 2009, Sweden: Epidemiological evidence for an association between use of wireless phones and tumor diseases.
Feb 2009, United Kingdom: Samsung stuffs Govt. advice & markets pre-teen mobile-phone
Sep 2008, United Kingdom: Mobile phone use 'raises children's risk of brain cancer fivefold'
Nov 2007, USA: In 2005 US autism rate was 1 in 166, but with Amish kids only 1 in 15000
Nov 2007, USA: Link Between Wireless Technology and Autism Unveiled in New Scientific Report
Jul 2007, United Kingdom: New health fears over big surge in autism
Source: Dr. George Carlo, via email to S. Dacre, 04 Nov 2009

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