Subject:  The public has a right to know.......
Date:     Wed, 8 Jul 1998 191558 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:

When I began this list more than three years ago, an oft repeated
motto of what we were trying to accomplish was:  THE PUBLIC HAS A
RIGHT TO KNOW!!!!

I was talking about the hazards of EMF, of course ... about which,
at that time, there was even more industry-inspired "P.R." obfuscation and
confusion than there is today.  Now, with the completion of the EMF RAPID
project, a basis exists for much of that obfuscation and confusion to
be cleared up.

The results of RAPID, with its "conservative" recognition of the EMF
hazards, particularly to children living alongside the power lines,
provides the government an opportunity to "undo" the wrongs of the past!!!

The appearance of the following story (about Hepatitis hazards in our
blood distribution system) ... makes me wonder ... will the government
-- now -- as readily inform the public about the EMF hazards ... as it is
doing below ... concerning the Hepatitis threat???????

Stop and think about it -- there are even more children "at risk" from
EMF than the "hundreds of thousands" (290,000) of blood transferees cited
below.....

Cheerio.......

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................

DO YOU KNOW OF ANYONE WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST?????
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11:14 AM ET 07/08/98

U.S alerting thousands of possible hepatitis virus

        
            WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has begun the
first phase in notifying hundreds of thousands of people who may
have been accidentally infected with the hepatitis C virus
during blood transfusions.
            Letters will be mailed to those who received transfusions
from blood donors who have since tested positive for the virus,
which affects four million Americans.
            People who received blood before June 1992, when the most
reliable screening test was instituted, are at risk.
            Hepatitis C is a blood-borne viral infection that can lead
to sometimes fatal chronic liver damage.
            ``I think we are very concerned about this disease. We think
it truly represents an epidemic,'' Surgeon General David Satcher
told ``ABC's Good Morning America'' Wednesday.
            Satcher defended the government mass mailing that some
experts think may create unnecessary anxiety.
            ``People deserve to know what we know in terms of the risks
if they've received blood from a person with hepatitis C. Also,
I think there are some things that we can do in terms of
treatment, even though we don't have a cure. The treatment is
improving every day,'' he said.
            ``We have delayed doing this until, number one, we were
fairly certain about the accuracy of the test, and we did not
want to falsely alarm individuals and families,'' Satcher added.
            Screening tests for the virus were implemented after 1990,
greatly reducing the risk of transfusion-borne viral
transmission. Experts believe the chance of such transmission
today is between 1-in-10,000 and 1-in-100,000.
            Last year, a government panel composed of liver experts and
medical ethicists estimated that 290,000 people may have
contracted the potentially serious liver infection during
pre-1990 transfusions.
        
 ^REUTERS@




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