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Victims of Electromagnetic Radiation Around the World www.next-up.org Mobile telephony and EHS : Testimony "indictment" against M. Repacholi (WHO & ICNIRP) and Governments. 31 12 2007 Victims of Electromagnetic Radiation around the World The Dr. Carlos Sosa M.D. Story. Please let me introduce myself. My name is Dr. Carlos Sosa, M.D. (Physician and surgeon) and I'm presently living in Medellin, Colombia in South America. During the month of May 2006, I was forced to leave my house because of the symptoms caused to me and my family by the microwaves of a wireless Internet (WiFi) mast (or antenna). The structure had been in our building for nearly three years and the company that owned it had been slowly raising the transmission frequency. In May/06 I started feeling a terrible sense of unwellness: headaches, dizziness, insomnia, nausea, irritability, amnesia or forgetfulness and lack of attention or concentration capacity. I couldn't bear being close to my house or to any other microwave mast, be it cell phone or WiFi antennas. I had to leave my house together with my whole family just to find out that the city was flooded by some 4000 masts that wouldn't 't leave a single irradiated spot for us to live in. I could sense the electromagnetic fields that were being given off by these antennas blocks away before I could even see them. Many times I felt like a burning candle in the back part of my head (occipital). We had to move to five different apartments all over the city because the situation was the same no matter where we went. I couldn't find physical or mental peace anywhere in the city. I couldn't study again which, being a Medical Doctor is a tragedy. Studying is my life and I wasn't able to remember or to concentrate. I had to resign my position at the hospital where I worked because there were various microwave cell phone masts around the hospital. I could not stand being inside the Emergency Service because the electromagnetic contamination was just too high and I felt pain just trying to find a place to park the car. That used to be my daily routine. Despite the fact that I tried to get help from local health authorities and the National Ministry of Communications of Colombia, nobody actually helped me. I sent my written reports with medical evidence to our city Health Secretary. He probably laughed a lot. A few months later I found out of Dr. William Rea who runs the Environmental Health Clinic in Dallas, Texas. I left immediately in search of his help. I already knew I had Microwave Syndrome. The alterations in my physiology were serious enough to seek help anywhere in the world. In Colombia, not a single medical doctor is trained in any of the universities to treat this problem. It's simply not taught anywhere in pre-graduate or graduate programs in medical schools around the country. Plus, being a medical doctor, I know of the IGNORANCE and DOGMATISM of the medical profession. If I made it public I would be tried for witchcraft. Despite this, I tried a very prestigious neurologist who had studied in Great Britain. He didn't even know the syndrome existed in Medicine and he tried to laugh before I showed him my box with some 2000 medical publications from all medical specialties written by doctors from all over the world. In Dallas I was able to meet people from the five continents with exactly my same story: they had been subject to microwave radiation from a mast that was one, two, three or four blocks away. I was not considering the possibility of surviving in the measure that my neurological functions were deeply affected. My best option at that point in time was committing suicide and I thought about it every hour of every day. Dr. Rea made the diagnosis of a toxic encephalopathy, immune dysregulation and dysautonomy. All of these diagnoses are a direct consequence of microwave irradiation. It had been many years since I had cried. I stayed in the clinic's rest room for half an hour trying to vanish the traces of the tears and my red eyes. I knew how serious the situation was. Basically all of my life, my profession and my neurological integrity was at stake. Dr. Rea taught me a lot. I will be eternally grateful to him. Though he wanted me to stay for two or three months, my economical situation did not allow for it. The very first day I had to spend almost all of my money in lab examinations. The medical results at the clinic spread through all of the gamut of possibilities from no response, partial recovery, functional symptoms, to total cure. I returned to Colombia in search of a place to hide from microwaves in the jungle. I visited tens of towns and states around the country. The nation is totally contaminated with electromagnetic smog. And Colombia is far better than any city in the United States or Europe. I finally managed to find a spot at one of the turns of the Andes Mountains. It was a beautiful place with a creek, a forest, a 200 year old house with no electricity and pure air. (All those interested, please just write to [email protected]). Though I could sense the electromagnetic fields coming probably from radar units, there was a big reduction in the symptoms that allowed me to start recovering. After staying there for 5 months I had to return to the city, because I was starting to feel the microwaves of the airplanes crossing in the sky. Unfortunately, there was an international air navigation route on the sky and I had to leave in very much pain back to the city. It was Dr. George Carlo, head of the epidemiology branch of the CTIA of the United States, who denounced publicly the evidence that they had concerning genetic damages, lymphomas, rupture of the brain-blood-barrier, presence of micronuclei, etc. The criteria used in Medicine and specifically in Epidemiology to establish a causal relationship between a chemical, bacterial or physical agent and disease, were fulfilled in less than ten years, states Carlo. These criteria, known as the Koch-Henle postulates, have proven that microwaves from cell phone telephony affect human health in a catastrophic way. Not a single government in the world cares. Only through litigation will changes become effective. My case, just like the case of other medical doctors who are or have been electro-sensitive, is just another modern version of infamy. Among these is the case of the former director of WHO and Norwegian prime minister: Gro Harlem Brundtland. She had forbidden journalists from using cell phones in her office because of her EHS (electrohypersensitivity). The news was made public in Norway and Sweden. A few months later, she had to abandon the leadership of the World Health Organization. Many point to Michael Repacholi and the the cell phone industry as authors of this proscription. Dr. Brundtland eventually became another patient in Dallas. Like her, Dr. Arthur Firstenberg and Dr. Lisa Nagy have become the tips of the icebergs. There is no doubt: the Microwave Syndrome is not only the biggest experiment in the history of Mankind, but also, it is one of the biggest epidemics recorded in Medicine (after the Black Death, influenza, malaria, AIDS, etc). The Health Department of the State of California is estimating that the total number of people affected in the United States by EHS or the Microwave Syndrome is over ONE MILLION people. In not a single Medicine book or journal in the world, be it a genetics, a physiology, a histology, a molecular biology, a biochemistry, a microbiology, an internal medicine, a pediatrics, a surgery, a neurology, a cardiology, or any other text does it say that the human cell was designed to to withstand microwave radiation day and night throughout the years. This is a creation, an invention or a lie from the cell phone industry. This industry was set up by engineers, physicist, electricians and many times, by graduates of elementary school who had no credentials and no knowledge of Medicine whatsoever. That's the reason why many of us are ill or actually dying. As long as the cell phone industry owns the World Health Organization, the crime will proceed. The credibility gap of the WHO extends well beyond the Milky Way. The ethical conflict is patent. The international epidemic of the microwave syndrome is getting to levels of genocide. And Michael Repacholi is internationally responsible for CRIMES AGAINST MANKIND. The knowledge was there since the 1920's. Originally described in the Soviet Union during the 1940's and 1950's, the Microwave Syndrome, also called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, Microwave Disease, Radio-frequency Sickness, Radar Disease, Electric Sensitivity, Cell Phone Disease, Cell Phone Mast Disease constitutes a CRIME AGAINST MANKIND on behalf of the international cell phone industry. Soviet medical reports were already describing the damaging action of electromagnetic fields on human beings in the 1920's. The microwaving of approximately 80-90% of the human population is, according to Dr. Leif Salford of the Neurosurgery Department of Lund University in Sweden, the greatest experiment ever conducted against Man. Medical ethics codes have been violated by the World Health Organization taken over by the the cell phone industry in 1996. The Microwave Syndrome or Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, constitutes a criminal action that has violated medical ethics, the Nuremberg Code, the Helsinki Declaration, and Human Rights of MANKIND as a species.
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