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Interview with Gro Harlem Brundtland

WHO Director-General & cellphone problems

[Former Norwegian Prime Minister, WHO Director-General, Gro Harlem
Brundtland is getting headaches every time she's using a mobile phone.]
Translation of Cover story in Norwegian newspaper "Dagbladet" of March 9,
2002:

Mobile phone radiation gives Gro Harlem Brundtland headaches.

WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland (62), gets headaches from
talking on a mobile phone. That is not enough: People in her proximity must
turn their phones off in order to prevent discomfort.

By Aud Dalsegg

Saturday 9 March 2002

"It's not the sound, but the waves I react on. My hypersensitivity has gone so far
that I even react on mobiles closer to me than about four metres," Gro explains.
When we sit with her in her office at "Helsetilsynet" in Oslo she asks if there is
an active mobile phone in the room. She finds that she has developed a slight
headache. The cellular phone of the photographer was turned on but without
sound in the pocket of his jacket.

The earlier Minister of State [Prime Minister] never had a mobile of her own, but
she has close associates who do and she earlier often received calls on their
phones. She says there are reasons to be cautious about mobile phone use.

"In the beginning I felt a local warmth around my ear. But the agony got worse,
and turned into a strong discomfort and headaches every time I used a mobile
phone," Gro says. She thought she could escape the pain by shorter calls, but it
didn't help.

Neither did it help that she herself stopped using a mobile phone. Today it is a
tool everybody uses, also at her workplace, the World Health Organisation
(WHO) in Geneva.

"I felt after a while that I had developed a sensitivity against the radiation.

And in order not to be thought to be hysterical - that someone should believe

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that this was just something I imagined - I have made several tests: People have
been in my office with their mobile hidden in their pocket or bag. Without
knowing if it was on or off, we have tested my reactions. I have always reacted
when the phone has been on - never when it's off. So there is no doubt."

What about PCs?

- "If I hold a laptop to read what's on the screen, it feels like I get an electric
shock through my arms."....

The headache she gets from mobile radiation abates about half an hour to an
hour after the radiation exposure stops.

Cannot stand wireless [phones]

Wireless phones, becoming more and more common in homes are said to radiate
stronger than mobile phones [due to the lack of low power modes of DECT]. Gro
cannot stand such [phones] either. "I get an instant reaction if I touch such a
phone".

Do you advise against using a mobile phone?

- "We do not have scientific evidence to go out with a clear warning. It is not
established that the radiation for instance can result in brain cancer. WHO has a
big study going on and in 2-3 years from now, we will have better answers to all
these questions. But I understand the scientists who warn. I think we have
reason to be cautious, and not use the [mobile] phone more than necessary. And
the younger you are, the more reason to take this seriously. I think you should
follow the precautionary principle", Gro Harlem Brundtland says.

Previously scientists and physicians have ignored hypersensitivity to electricity.

The Norwegian Association for Electro-sensitive felt the resistance to be so
strong they closed down their work [they have since started again].

"But I am convinced this has to be taken seriously. Some people develop

sensitivity to electricity and radiation from equipment such as mobile phones or
PCs. If this sensitivity can lead to adverse health-effects as cancer or other
diseases, we do not know yet. But I think we should follow the precautionary
principle, especially with regard to our children."

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