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Article: Death rays from outer space - or right in our homes? (electromagnetic fields as a health risk)
- Article from:
- Medical Update
- Article date:
- May 1, 1990
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Electricity has always been something of a mystery to many of us, but because it is something most of us cannot do without, we simply respect electricity and have learned to live with it by following such simple precautions as keeping appliances away from the bathtub or not standing under trees during thunderstorms. Now, however, some people are saying that we are being increasingly surrounded by electrically generated electromagnetic fields that can cause everything from cancer to miscarriages.
The culprit, it seems, is the alternating current (AC) that long ago replaced direct current (DC) in most electrical applications and made possible the transmission of ...