Subject:  Cell phone lawsuit, The Express (UK) - 16/10/99 (Pegg)..
Date:     Sat, 16 Oct 1999 082421 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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.......Again, thanks to Hazel Pegg, we have the following.  There is more
to come.....  I believe that BBC Watchdog did a story on the Cell Phone
issue last night.....

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 12:55:59 +0100
From: hazel pegg 
To: "'Roy L. Beavers'" 
Subject: The Express (UK) - 16/10/99

Workers tell how health suffered.

An engineer launched a lawsuit against his former bosses at British telecom 
earlier this year, claiming the mobile phone they gave him caused him brain 
damage.

Stever Corney, a father of three, worked for BT from 1986 until 1996, then 
went sick until leaving the firm on health grounds last year.

Mr. Corney, 40, of Kempston, Beds, spent several hours a day on his BT 
mobile before falling ill. He claims radiation from it caused him short 
term memory loss that eventually made even the simplest tasks a nightmare.
"I would do the shopping, pay with cash and then forget that I had done it, 
so I would do it all again and pay with a credit card", he said.

Yesterday he welcomed the stand taken by Dr.Carlo. Mr.Corney said: "Mobile 
phones aren't safe and it's time the companies admitted they do cause harm. 
Anything which can get this message across is important."

Market trader Giovannia de Dominicis was struck down with Hodgkin's 
Disease, a rare form of cancer, at the same time as his friend and next 
door neighbour Terry Clark. The pair, from Hackney, East London, blamed 
their cancer on the use of Mercury OnetoOne mobiles which they both used 
for hours at a time. Mr.de Dominicis, 27, who has been in remission for the 
past two years, said: "The mobile phone industry will be caught up just
the same way the tobacco people were. I believe they will end up paying out 
millions, and having to admit that mobile phones do carry risks".

Dr.Gerald Hyland, a physicist at Warwickshire University, said "I know from 
my own area that epileptic seizures have gone up in schools as a result of 
youngsters using mobiles."




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