CONTATORI INTELLIGENTI ( SMART METER) : PERICOLOSITÀ RICONOSCIUTA IN UNO STUDIO AUSTRALIANO
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SELF-REPORTING OF SYMPTOM DEVELOPMENT FROM EXPOSURE TO
RADIOFREQUENCY FIELDS OF WIRELESS SMART METERS IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA: A CASE
SERIES.
Abstract
Context • In 2006, the government in the state of Victoria, Australia,
mandated the rollout of smart meters in Victoria, which effectively removed a
whole population's ability to avoid exposure to human-made high-frequency
nonionizing radiation. This issue appears to constitute an unprecedented public
health challenge for Victoria. By August 2013, 142 people had reported adverse
health effects from wireless smart meters by submitting information on an
Australian public Web site using its health and legal registers. Objective •
The study evaluated the information in the registers to determine the types of
symptoms that Victorian residents were developing from exposure to wireless
smart meters. Design • In this case series, the registers' managers eliminated
those cases that did not clearly identify the people providing information by
name, surname, postal address, and/or e-mail to make sure that they were
genuine registrants. Then they obtained consent from participants to have their
deidentified data used to compile the data for the case series. The author
later removed any individual from outside of Victoria. Participants • The study
included 92 residents of Victoria, Australia. Outcome Measures • The author
used her medical experience and judgment to group symptoms into clinically
relevant clusters (eg, pain in the head was grouped with headache, tinnitus was
grouped with ringing in the ears). The author stayed quite close to the wording
used in the original entries. She then calculated total numbers and percentages
for each symptom cluster. Percentages were rounded to the nearest whole
number.Results • The most frequently reported symptoms from exposure to smart
meters were (1) insomnia, (2) headaches, (3) tinnitus, (4) fatigue, (5)
cognitive disturbances, (6) dysesthesias (abnormal sensation), and (7)
dizziness. The effects of these symptoms on people's lives were significant.
Conclusions • Review of some key studies, both recent and old (1971), reveals
that the participants' symptoms were the same as those reported by people
exposed to radiofrequency fields emitted by devices other than smart meters.
Interestingly, the vast majority of Victorian cases did not state that they had
been sufferers of electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome (EHS) prior to
exposure to the wireless meters, which points to the possibility that smart
meters may have unique characteristics that lower people's threshold for
symptom development.
