Electronic Telegraph, Wednesday April 19, 2000:
>
> Vatican Radio programmes are broadcast all over the world from a
> forest of antennae at Santa Maria di Galera, near Cesano, a
> northern suburb of Rome. Residents have reported the complex to
> magistrates dozens of times and doctors who examined the cause
> of 7,500 deaths over six years in Cesano found the incidence of
> tumours was 30 per cent higher than the national average.
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From: "Roy L. Beavers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: emfguru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000
Subj: Vatican radio cancer (Cherry)..
.......Many thanks to Dr. Cherry for the following.....
Is the Pope listening.....???
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Neil Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000
Subj: Vatican radio cancer
Dear Roy,
When I was in Rome last December I met the author of a paper on
leukaemia around the Vatican radio tower. The abstract of that
paper is here. (Below)
It confirms the UK studies of Dolk et al. (1997) in the American
Journal of Epidemiology. In that case the authors did not
appreciate that the only cancer which was high near the tower and
then declines with distance, was adult leukaemia at the Sutton
Coldfield tower. It was the only high powered tower, in a high
population area with FM radio transmissions. FM radio irradiates
the ground inside 1 km but the UHF TV transmissions peak outside
1 km in a broad, undulating fashion, just like the leukaemia at
all the other towers.
Hence the Dolk studies show consistent results of leukaemia and
many other cancers that follow the radial RF radiation patterns.
With this results and the Hocking et al (1996) result, it is
indicative of a causal relationship between extremely low mean
intensity RF exposure and cancer, especially leukaemia.
Regards
Neil Cherry
-----------------------------------------
1998 Annual conference of ISEE and ISEA
Epidemiology, July 1998, Vol 9, Number 4, Supplement
354 P
RISK OF LEUKENUA AND RESEDENCE NEAR A RADIO TRANSMNTER IN ITALY.
P Micholozzi. C Ancona, D Fusco, F Forastiere, CA Perucci.
Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Authority, Ronie, Italy.
Background: An association between leukaemia and exposure to low
frequency magnetic fields has been reported in several studies. On
this basis, there is scientific and public concern about the risk
offing near high power radio transmitters. Recent studies have
suggested a possible relationship between leukaemia and residential
proximity to radio-television transmitters. We conducted a small
area study to investigate a cluster of leukaemia near a high power
radio-transmitters in a peripheral area of Rome.
Methods: The study area was defined as a 10 km radius circle around
the transmitter, with a population of 30165 (Census 1991). The
source of data was a regional Geographic Information System
including mortality, population, and socio-economic data by census
tract. An area of 3.5 km close to the transmitter and nine bands of
increasing distance from the transmitter, using 0.5 km radius
increment up to 10 km, were defined. Observed/expected number of
cases, adjusted for 5-year age-group and socio-economic level were
computed in the area 0-3.5 Km and in the nine bands. These data
were used to test the decline in risk at different distances from
the radio transmitter. A trend specific test (Stone's conditional
test) was performed; the significance level was determined using
Monte Carlo simulations.
Results: The leukaemia mortality within 3.5 km (5,863 inhabitants)
was higher than expected (SMR=2.5, 95% confidence interval
1.07-4.83); the excess was due to a significant higher mortality
among men (7 cases observed, SMR=3.5). The results of the Stone's
test after adjusting for socio-economic confounding, showed a
significant decline in risk with distance from the transmitter only
among men (p=0.005), whereas the p-value for both sexes was p=0.07.
Discussion: The present ecological study has a small number of
cases, and there is the possibility of confounding from
socio-demographic, occupational, and environmental factors.
However these findings are interesting since similar results have
been reported in previous studies.
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>http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000161213823310&rtmo=lQokbSSt&atm
>o=99999999&pg=/et/00/4/19/wvat19.html
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>
> Cancer cluster blamed on powerful Vatican radio transmitters
>
> By Bruce Johnston in Rome
>
> Electronic Telegraph, Wednesday April 19, 2000
>
> RADIO transmitters operated by the Vatican are under official
> investigation over claims that electromagnetic pollution is
> causing cancer among local residents.
>
> Vatican Radio programmes are broadcast all over the world from a
> forest of antennae at Santa Maria di Galera, near Cesano, a
> northern suburb of Rome. Residents have reported the complex to
> magistrates dozens of times and doctors who examined the cause
> of 7,500 deaths over six years in Cesano found the incidence of
> tumours was 30 per cent higher than the national average.
>
> A separate inquiry by the Lazio region found that electromagnetic
> energy in the area was almost three times the legal limit.
> Francesco Ferrante, the director general of Italy's Legambiente,
> or environmental league, said people living near the antennae had
> found their computers switched on by themselves, telephone
> conversations were "invaded" by radio transmissions and watching
> television was impossible.
>
> The Legambiente claimed that 60 per cent of deaths in the area in
> 1996 were due to cancer. Lucia Venturi, a scientific specialist
> with the organisation, called on the Italian state to intervene
> to protect the health of its citizens.
>
> Yesterday it was reported that official paperwork sent by the
> investigating magistrates to three Vatican representatives had
> been returned on the grounds that the antennae complex enjoyed
> extra-territorial status, leaving them immune from judicial
> sanctions.
>
> Lawyers acting for the Vatican, including Eugenio Pacelli, a
> nephew of Pope Pius XII, pointed out that, under the Lateran Pact
> those who exercise Vatican activities are not punishable under
> Italian law. A 1951 accord also recognises the extra-
> territoriality of the complex. The lawyers added that there was
> no legal precedent recognising any damaging effect to health of
> electromagnetic waves.
>
> However, a local councillor insisted: "The privilege of extra-
> territoriality is not valid. The constitutional right to
> people's health has to be respected."
>
> Magistrates have now asked Italy's Foreign Ministry to intervene
> to prevent diplomatic deadlock over the case.
>
>
>
>
>
>.
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