Transcript George J. Pardos, MD. - The EMR Policy Institute

George J. Pardos, M.D..
Ophthalmologist: Fellowship Trained
in Cornea and External Disease
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Reporting On :
 Increased
Sensitivity of the Non Human
Primate Eye to Microwave Radiation
Following Ophthalmic Drug Pre-treatment
 Henry A. Kues et al
 Bioelectromagnetics 13:379-393 (1992)
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Purpose:Study the Effects on the
Monkey Eye after being exposed
to:
 2.45
GHz at power densities of:
– 0.2,1.5,10 and 15 mW/cm2
4
hour a day for three days
 Pre treated with Timolol or Pilocarpine
 No Pre-treatment with eye drops
 Controls - No EMR exposure
– No EMR exposure and the use of drops
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Eye in EMR Research
 Can
observe changes in the eye without
being invasive
– killing animal
 Allows
us to view effect on tissue without
actually manipulating these tissues
– blood vessels, corneal endothelial cells etc..
 Gives
insight into how other tissue less
accessible reacts
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Glaucoma
 Incidence
is 1:5000
 Most Common drug in treatment is Timolol
– Pilocarpine also widely used
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Control Animals: Not exposed to
EMR and / or used Drops
 No
blood vessel leakage
 No changes in the Corneal endothelium
– Photo 1A & B
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Results: Exposed to EMR- No
drops
 Levels
of power 10 mW/cm2 and higher
caused blood vessel leakage in the iris of of
these animals
 Levels of 5 mW/cm2 caused changes in the
corneal endothelial cells in these animals
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Result: Exposed to EMR and
drops
 Leakage
of iris blood vessels were found
between 0.2 mW/cm2 and 1.0 mW/cm2
 Found corneal endothelial changes that
were more than twice the amount observed
in animals exposed to EMR but without
drops- threshold not tested but at least 5
mW/cm2
– Photo 5A & B
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Conclusion
 No
evidence of leakage in Rhesus monkeys
not exposed to EMR or using drops
 EMR causes blood vessel leakage in Rhesus
monkeys at 10 mW/cm2
 Treating with commonly used
antiglaucomatous drops decreased threshold
level for leakage from 10 mW/cm2 to
between 0.2 and 1.0 mW/cm2 or by a factor
of 50
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Why is this Relevant?
 Current
FCC regulations allow at higher
frequencies, greater human power exposure.
– At GHz frequencies 1.0 mW/cm2 is allowed.
 This
study show that even at the 0.2
mW/cm2 (200 uW/cm2) there may be
threshold damage allowing increased
permeability to none human primate blood
vessels
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Why is this Relevant?
 The
proposed tower would be allowed to
emit EMR at 0.2 mW/cm2. At higher
frequencies, the community power exposure
is allowed to increase and the damage from
increase power exposure to the vasculature
and corneal endothelium of a monkey is
demonstrated by this study.
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Why is this Relevant?
 Effect
of EMR on Rhesus monkeys can be
assumed to parallel those of humans
 These test subject were only exposed to a
total of 12 hours of EMR. Residence would
be exposed to CONTINUOUS EMR. The
assumption being that continuous exposure
would cause cumulative damage far
beyound that seen in the 12 hr monkey exp.
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Why is this Relevant?
 The
damage to the Rhesus monkey’s eye is
a mirror to what may be happening to other
organs less accessible to observation.
 The ubiquitous use of these
antiglaucomatous medication (Timolol and
Pilocarpine) further jeopardize that portion
of the public to the effects of EMR
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Statement
 While
the extrapolation between effects
seen in Rhesus monkeys and Humans is not
proven by this paper, enough evidence is
presented regarding the harmful effects of
EMR to our nearest genetic relative that
further studies on Humans is Warranted
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Statement
 The
residence surrounding the proposed
tower should not be allowed to serve as the
test subjects for a human experiment.
 Prudence would suggest further studies are
needed before the public be exposed to the
potential harmful effects of EMR at the
levels, the proposed tower would be
permitted to emit, and proven to be harmful,
in our nearest genetic relatives, monkeys.
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