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Article: The Vatican Denies EMF's Role in Leukemia.(electromagnetic fields )
- Article from:
- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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Italian politics and life, for that matter, generally plays like a Fellini movie. In a conflict that should play high in the hearts of many TLfDP readers, the Italian head of Environment has decreed that the Vatican's shortwave radio transmission tower emissions are responsible for an epidemic of leukemia in children living in the surrounding suburbs. When the Vatican built the towers in the 1950's the surrounding area was largely unsettled; today over 100,000 Italians live within a few miles of the radio towers. The Vatican uses the radio towers to transmit by shortwave the Pope's message and other Vatican programs in 40 languages to be heard by a worldwide audience. ...