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Living near cell tower
We are living near 'cell tower. So what will happen ? Is there any problem ? is there any health problems ?
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Hi Sir Thanks for seeking help here. I think you there is really no specific studies on it. But when a company build a tower he takes all precautions as the human safety rights . But this may not able resolve you doubts So I suggest you sir please read the below material. truths. Cell phone companies and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration assert that cell phone towers don’t pose health risks to the public.  Some studies support this assertion, but other studies suggest just the opposite. Harvard-trained Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona’s medical center recently observed, “In January 2008, the National Research Council (NRC), an arm of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, issued a report saying that we simply don't know enough about the potential health risks of long-term exposure to RF energy from cell phones themselves, cell towers, television towers, and other components of our communications system. The scientists who prepared the report emphasized, in particular, the unknown risks to the health of children, pregnant women, and fetuses as well as of workers whose jobs entail high exposure to RF (radiofrequency) energy….Because so much of cell phone technology is new and evolving, we don't have data on the consequences of 10, 20 or 30 years worth of exposure to the RF energy they emit,”  Weil concluded.  The report called for long-term safety studies on all wireless devices including cell phones, computers, and cell phone towers. A 2006  report issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) offered some reassurance and found no scientific evidence that radiofrequency signals from cell towers cause adverse health effects.  The report noted that up to five times more of the RF signals from FM radio and television (than from cell towers) are absorbed by the body with no known adverse effects on health in the more than 50 years that radio and TV broadcast stations have been operating. But an Australian study found that children living near TV and FM broadcast towers, which emit similar radiation to cell towers, developed leukemia at three times the rate of children living over seven miles away. If you live within a quarter mile of a cell phone antenna or tower, you may be at risk of serious harm to your health, according to a German study cited at  www.emf-health.com, a site devoted to exposing hazards associated with electromagnetic frequencies from cell phone towers and other sources. Cancer rates more than tripled among people living within 400 meters of cell phone towers or antennas, a German study found.  Those within 100 meters were exposed to radiation at 100 times normal levels.  An Israeli study found risk of cancer quadrupled among people living within 350 meters (1,148 feet) of a cell phone transmitter—and seven out of eight cancer victims were women.  Both studies focused only on people who had lived at the same address for many years.
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