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Swedish rural community could be haven for the electrosensitive |
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Sweden | Created: 22 Feb 2006 |
A rural community in northern Sweden could become a safe haven for people who are sensitive to electromagnetic energy, reports said Tuesday. Two small communities, including Bollnas some 300 kilometres north of Stockholm, are willing to host an electromagnetic energy free village being consideration by a group of sufferers, the Swedish news agency TT said. Recent statistics indicate that Sweden has more mobile phone subscribers than its nine million inhabitants and many households are wired to the Internet. "We have to be sure that the area would be sheltered from telecommunication masts and other electromagnetic energy sources in the future," Ing-Marie Granath, who chairs a sufferers' group, told TT. Granath said that although the group has not yet made public its plans, some 140 people have expressed interest in living in the proposed village. Research is ongoing into electrosensitivity but there is no apparent consensus about health risks. People who are electrosensitive experience various symptoms including eye irritation, skin rash, headache, dizziness, nausea, fatigue, breathing difficulty, and irregular heartbeat. |
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Source: S: Deutsche Presse-Agentur |
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