Subject:  Telephone "linemen" cancer rates (guru).
Date:     Wed, 29 Nov 2000 055735 -0600
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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Hi everybody:

I did not get any replies to my question below -- about the cancer rate
for "telephone splicers" (linemen).......  I am trying again.....  Can
anyone confirm the statement below; that "splicers" have a significantly
higher cancer rate???.......guru......


........From EMF-L........

Guru is forwarding this one to see if we have any confirmation "out there"
of the statement:  "telephone splicers have a cancer rate at seven times the 
national average."  .......guru........

-------- Original Message --------
 Subject: 2 PARTY SYSTEM
    Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 12:12:35 -0400
    From: "James Hrivnak" 
Reply-To: "James Hrivnak" 
      To: 
      CC: 

 Your home page is great and in my judgement ON TARGET. I was sent to 
your home page by plhmarsh@webtv.net whose family has health problems 
which could be related to EMF's.  I have been to their house on several 
occasions.  I have spoken with them at length on the telephone.  

To date, all I can say is that federal established standards (which have
recently been reduced) are not being exceeded. The Swedish and the Leeper
(Colorado) studies both show that cancer is elevated along transmission 
lines.  Both studies showed reduced correlation when individual cancer 
cases were not located within the highest magnetic field zones.  

It is a shame that such studies are not being continued.  The initial 
correlations are excellent.   I spoke with Leeper and asked if ground 
currents, stray voltages, radio fields, etc were considered then or would 
be in future studies?  He said "no " to both questions and cut the 
conversation short. 

On the issue of stray currents, I planted some grass seed and passed 
currents below one milliampere through the root system.  Plant life was 
indeed affected.  See the fourth article at:
http://www.theramp.net/nefta/news.htm 

Stray currents have tweaked my curiousity ever since I read that 
telephone splicers, as a profession, have a cancer rate at seven times the
national average in all categories.   A current passing from atom to atom 
in the human body produces tempory ions.  Ions are much the same as 
oxidants and radicals.  Oxidants are already shown to be related to cancer.  

Telephone splicers get frequent small shocks all day long.  Most shocks 
are below the perception level.


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