Subject:  Re EMF-L (H) leukemia study in Taiwan
Date:     Sat, 19 Jul 1997 004039 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "T. H. Chen" <bochenth@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw>
To:       Multiple recipients of list <emf-l@mail.llion.org>
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Dear Peter Grainer

The article is not in English.  In the next day (July 17th), the United
Daily News gave more numbers.  It was based on a talk Dr. Lin gave at a
symposium.  Dr. lin gathered the data from files on leukemia death in the
Ministry of Health.  He found out that children under 14 who lived within
100 m of power lines had higher rates of leukemia ( 2.58 times vs.
control).  It was not a large scale survey, focused only on residents near
Taipei.  He also pointed out that he found out employees of local power
company and telephone company had higher death rates from brain cancer or
leukemia, based on data from Labor Insurance Bureau (no actual number
given).

Here is Dr. Lin's address:

Prof. R.-S. Lin
Institute of Public Health
Medical School, National Taiwan University
1, Sec. 1, Jen-Ai Rd.
Taipei, Taiwan 100

The government owned power company gave a comment on Dr. Lin's talk.  They
claimed that the avarage magnetic field strengh in the vicinity of their
power lines does not exceed 200 mG, well below the 1000 mG standard of
IRPA.  Apparently they were not aware of the NCI study.

Tsung-Hsien  Chen

>Dear Tsung-Hsien Chen
>
>Your recent e-mail to emf-l is very interesting.  If the article
>is in English would you be able to fax it to me on +44 117 928
>2470?
>
>Also do you know how I could contact Dr R Lin?
>
>Kind Regards
>
>Peter Grainger


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