Morbidity and mortality from cellphones and wireless technology

From: “Radio Wave Packet“
What You Need to Know about Wireless Technology
A note by: Arthur Firstenberg (1950-2025)
President, Cellular Phone Task Force
First published: September 2001

Morbidity ¹ and Mortality ² From Cellphones And Wireless Technology

FLORA AND FAUNA
HUMANS

Flora ³ and Fauna ⁴

Aspens
In a backyard laboratory in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, where trembling aspens were declining and refusing to display their colors in the fall, Katie Haggerty decided to find out what would happen if she shielded some of them from radio waves. After just two months, her shielded seedlings were 74 percent longer, and their leaves 60 percent larger than either her unshielded seedlings or her mock-shielded seedlings. And in the fall, only her shielded seedlings displayed the bright colors for which aspens are famous. (Haggerty 2010 ⁵)

Songbirds
At Germany’s University of Oldenburg, scientists who were shocked to find that the migratory songbirds they were studying were no longer able to orient toward the north in spring and toward the southwest in autumn, decided to find out what would happen if they shielded an aviary from radio waves. Suddenly the birds were able face north in spring for migration. (Engels et al. 2014 ⁶)

Amphibians
On a fifth floor apartment’s terrace in Barcelona, a block away from a cell tower, Alfonso Balmori decided to test his conjecture that radio waves might be responsible for the worldwide decline and extinction of so many species of amphibians. For two months he cared for two identical tanks of tadpoles, one of which was shielded from radio waves by a thin layer of fabric. The mortality in the unshielded tank was 90%, and in the shielded tank only 4%. (Balmori ⁷ 2006)

Honey Bees
A professor at Panjab University in India decided to test her conjecture that wireless technology might be responsible for colony collapse disorder in honey bees. She put cell phones in two of four hives and turned them on twice a day for 15 minutes at a time. After three months there was neither honey, nor pollen, nor brood, nor bees in the two colonies with cell phones. (Sharma and Kumar 2010)
She then decided to find out what was happening in the bees’ hemolymph, which is what their blood is called. And she found that cellular respiration was brought almost to a standstill. After just ten minutes of exposure to a cell phone, the bees practically could not metabolize sugars, fats, or proteins. (Kumar et al. 2011 ⁸)

Mice
In the Greek village of Chortiatis, on the third floor of the Public Primary School, six pairs of mice were mated and observed through five pregnancies. The first three pregnancies produced an average of five offspring per female. After that all the mice were sterile, giving birth to no more offspring. Visible from the schoolroom window, about one mile away, was an antenna farm ⁹ ¹⁰ atop Chortiatis Mountain ¹¹, broadcasting, in total, about 300 kW of power.
Six more pairs of mice were bred in a wildlife preserve, Refuge of Hypaithrios Life ¹², located on the mountain. These mice averaged only one newborn per pregnancy from the beginning, and were sterile by the third pregnancy. The sterility was proven to be permanent and irreversible. (Magras and Xenos 1997 ¹³)

Ants
Marie-Claire Cammaerts, at the Free University of Belgium, brought thousands of ants into her laboratory, placed an older model flip phone under their colonies and watched them walk. When the phone contained no battery it affected them not at all. Nor did the battery alone. But as soon as the battery was placed in the phone—even though the phone was still turned off—the ants darted back and forth with vigor, as if trying to escape an enemy they could not see. When she put the phone into standby mode, the ants’ frenzy increased even more. When she finally turned the phone on, they all slowed down.
Cammaerts next exposed a fresh ant colony to a smartphone and then a cordless phone. In each case their rate of changing directions doubled or tripled within one or two seconds while their actual walking speed drastically slowed. After they were exposed for three minutes, they required two to four hours before they appeared normal again. Other ants, after being exposed to a WiFi router for thirty minutes, took six to eight hours to recover, and some were found dead a few days later. When she placed a flip phone in standby mode under the ants’ nest instead instead of their foraging area, the ants all immediately left their nest, taking their eggs, larvae,
and nymphs with them. (Cammaerts and Johansson 2014 ¹⁴)

Rats
Neurosurgeon Leif Salford’s team at the University of Lund in Sweden exposed rats to an ordinary cell phone, just once for two hours, and sacrificed them 50 days later. The exposed rats had permanent brain damage from that single exposure—even when the power level of the phone was reduced a hundredfold. (Salford et al. 2003 ¹⁵)

Cows
When cell towers were raised all across America in 1996, reports came in from farmers of farm animals suddenly sick and dying, and their offspring born with webbed necks and legs on backwards. (Hawk 1996). Wolfgang Löscher and Günter Käs, receiving similar reports in Germany, visited such farms and examined such cows. Cows were dying from acute heart and circulatory collapse with bleeding from several organs. When sick cows were removed to a distant location they recovered their health. (Löscher and Käs 1998 ¹⁶)

Fruit Flies
For a science fair experiment, fifteen-year-old Alexander Chan, at Benjamin Cardozo High School in Queens, New York exposed fruit fly larvae daily to a loudspeaker, a computer monitor, or a cell phone and observe their development. The flies that were exposed to the cell phone failed to develop wings. (Serant 2004 ¹⁷)

Cress Seeds
For another science fair experiment, a team of five ninth grade girls in Hjallerup, Denmark filled twelve trays with 400 cress seeds each. They placed six trays in a window next to three laptop computers and two WiFi routers, and six trays in a similar window but without computers or routers. After 6 days, none of the irradiated seeds had sprouted, and many of them never did.
After 12 days, the control sprouts were twice as large as those next to the laptops and routers. (Nielsen et al. 2013 ¹⁸)

Pepper Plants
Scientists at the University of Gaza grew 100 pepper seedlings under identical conditions, except that half of them were watered daily with tap water that had sat in a glass flask for one hour next to a WiFi router, and the other half with tap water that had sat in an identical glass flask but not next to a router. The plants grown with irradiated water were pale and stunted. After 200 days, the control plants were 25% longer, their stems 5% thicker, and their roots 40% longer than the plants grown with irradiated water. They also weighed 90% more, had 74% more leaves, were 12% more moist, flowered and fruited earlier, and produced 38% larger fruit. (Alattar and Radwan 2020 ¹⁹)

Radio Collared Animals
Radio collared mammals, including rabbits, voles, lemmings, badgers, foxes, deer, moose, armadillos, river otters, and sea otters have suffered increased mortality, impaired digging ability, weight loss, reduced activity levels, increased self-grooming, altered social interactions, and reproductive failure. (Mech and Barber 2002)
In a study of moose, calves without any ear tags and calves with plain ear tags had 10%
mortality, while calves with ear tags that contained transmitters had 68% mortality. The only difference was the radio waves. (Swenson et al. 1999)
In another study, water vole colonies that contained radio-tagged females gave birth to four times as many males as females. The researchers concluded that likely none of the radio-tagged female voles gave birth to any female offspring. (Moorhouse and Macdonald 2005 ²⁰)

FOOTNOTES

Morbidity is the state of having a specific illness or condition. While morbidity can refer to an acute condition, such as a respiratory infection, it often refers to a condition that’s chronic (long-lasting). ↩︎
Mortality is the state of being mortal (destined to die). In medicine, the term is also used for death rate, or the number of deaths in a certain group of people in a certain period of time. ↩︎
Flora – plant, bush, shrub and tree life ↩︎
Fauna – animal life ↩︎
International Journal of Forestry Research – Katie Haggerty – Adverse Influence of Radio Frequency Background on Trembling Aspen Seedlings: Preliminary Observations https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2010/836278 ↩︎
Nature – Anthropogenic electromagnetic noise disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory bird – Engels et al. 2014 – https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13290 ↩︎
The work of Alfonso Balmori – https://cellphonetaskforce.org/the-work-of-alfonso-balmori/ Not available anymore / Alternative: Environmental Health Trust : Declaration of Wildlife Biologist Alfonso Balmori on 5G and His Research on Wireless and Wildlife– https://ehtrust.org/declaration-of-wildlife-biologist-alfonso-balmori-on-5g-and-his-research-on-wireless-and-wildlife/ ↩︎
Changes in honey bee behaviour and biology under the influence of cell phone radiations – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225187745_Changes_in_honey_bee_behaviour_and_biology_under_the_influence_of_cell_phone_radiations ↩︎
Antenna farm – HAARP, JRO, EISCAT and SURA (antenna farms) – https://multerland.blog/2024/04/21/haarp/ ↩︎
Antenna farm, Mount Chortiatis, Thessaloniki, Greece – https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/transmitters-in-thessaloniki ↩︎
Mount Chortiatis, Thessaloniki, Greece – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Chortiatis ↩︎
Refuge of Hypaithrios Life, Greece – RF Radiation–Induced Changes in the Prenatal Development of Mice – PDF https://collectiveactionquebec.com/uploads/8/0/9/7/80976394/exhibit_r-62_magras_mice_study.pdf ↩︎
PubMed – RF radiation-induced changes in the prenatal development of mice https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9261543/ ↩︎
PubMed – Ants can be used as bio-indicators to reveal biological effects of electromagnetic waves from some wireless apparatus – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23977878/ ↩︎
PubMed – Nerve cell damage in mammalian brain after exposure to microwaves from GSM mobile phones – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12782486/ ↩︎
PDF: http://www.teslabel.be/001/documents/Conspicuous%20behavioural%20abnormalities%20in%20a%20dairy%20cow%20herd.pdf ↩︎
Nowhere else mentioned than in Radio Wave Packet. ↩︎
SaferEMR – Cell tower radiation prevents garden cress from germinating https://www.saferemr.com/2015/12/ ↩︎
Scientific Research – Investigation of the Effects of Radio Frequency Water Treatment on Some Characteristics of Growth in Pepper (Capsicum annuum) Plants – https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=98324 ↩︎
ResearchGate – Indirect negative impacts of radio-collaring: Sex ratio variation in water voles https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227994783_Indirect_negative_impacts_of_radio-collaring_Sex_ratio_variation_in_water_voles ↩︎

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