Subject: Re EMF overexposure (Catherine)(Cherry)(Hudiburg). Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 151145 -0600 From: Roy BeaversTo: guru -------------------------------------------------- ........Response from EMF-L....... More evidence of a connection (maybe) between EMF and asthma.... Again, it seems to me that there is **hint** of the Denis Henshaw aerosol effect at work here, too......guru.... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: EMF overexposure (Catherine)(Cherry). Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:47:24 -0500 From: Peter Hudiburg To: roy@emfguru.com References: <3AB51D94.D3156970@emfguru.com> Hi, Roy, This is what I've read on the connection between EMF and asthma. Damaged human mast cells from radiation may lead to asthma. Dr. Peter French has conducted experiments on human mast cells in culture that may explain the recent dramatic increase in asthma sufferers. Human mast cells, found in the subcutaneous tissue, mediate inflammatory responses to antigens like dust, pollen and other substances by producing histamine. Elevated histamine levels can constrict the bronchial tube among other effects. Under normal conditions, when the antigen is removed the histamine production stops. But when the mast cells are irradiated with weak cellular phone frequencies, their activity is permanently altered. An antigen then triggers histamine production at almost double the normal level and this continues for a much longer time after withdrawal of the antigen. Dr. John A.G. Holt has stated that “this would appear to me to be the explanation of the 40% rise in asthma with a 5% rise in asthma death rates in the last few years.” - Dr. John A.G. Holt, Powerwatch Technical Supplement no. 2, May 1996, p. 3, Website: Correlation seen between higher asthma numbers and radiation sources in NYC. Arthur Firstenberg, author of Microwaving Our Planet, has looked at asthma occurrence in NYC and seen a pattern closely matching areas of the city where one would suspect higher radiation levels. Looking at a February 22nd, 1998 Daily News map of asthma rates in the city, and the table of asthma hospitalizations by neighborhood, Firstenberg observed that, “some of the highest rates of asthma...cluster around the city’s two airports, La Guardia and Kennedy. Hunts Point, Mott Haven, and East Harlem, which have the very highest rates in the city, are indeed centers of poverty, but they are also directly across the East River from La Guardia, under the flight path of landing airplanes, and are therefore constantly bathed in airport radar. The neighborhoods under the flight path of Kennedy Airport--including Broad Channel and Far Rockaway--also have very high asthma rates, and they are not poor neighborhoods.... It is remarkable that the asthma rate in the Rockaways becomes progressively less with distance from Kennedy Airport.” - Arthur Firstenberg, No Place to Hide, Volume 2, Number 1, February 1999, pp. 9-10. Excerpts from: Background Information and a List of People Who Could Be Interviewed Concerning the Health Effects of Microwave Exposure by Peter Hudiburg, Microwave Health Alert! Hudiburg@Clarityconnect.com Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com