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Electricity, health linked?
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United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — In the
early I970’s, workers at a power
plant in the Soviet Union com
plained that exposure to high-
voltage power transmission lines
caused fatigue and the loss of
appetite and sexual vigor.
Similar claims have been
made in the United States, but to
date, no scientific evidence sug
gests that chronic health prob
lems are caused by exposure to
high-voltage lines.
But Dr. Wendell Winters, an
associate professor of microbiol
ogy at the University of Texas
Health Science Center, recently
began a $125,000 study that may
ultimately provide some
answers.
Using an array of new equip
ment, some of it designed espe
cially for this study, Winters
plans to expose human and
animal cells to a range of simu
lated, high-voltage electric
strengths, magnetic field
strengths and combined electro
magnetic strengths.
The research will focus on
whether changes take place in
the body’s immune response
cells following the controlled ex
posures.
“I had conducted (similar) re
search before with less sophisti
cated equipment with interest
ing results,” Winters said. “It
showed definitely some changes
in the cell.”
The study, which will take
place during the next two years,
includes injecting humans and
dogs with harmless vaccine-like
materials that create specific im
mune responses in the body.
Samples of the subject’s circu
lating immune cells will be taken
at prescribed intervals and ex
posed to electric, magnetic and
combined electromagnetic
fields, simulating the close expo
sure to high-voltage lines.
/ill be lookin
15 related studies funded by the
New York State Department of
Health.
‘We will be looking for data to
substantiate or disprove the
hypothesis that significant biolo
gical changes take place follow
ing exposure to the fields,” Win
ters said.
“If we find laboratory proof
that the functions of immune re
sponse cells are compromised, it
could mean that comparable ex
posure at the cell level in hu
mans and animals could result in
similar compromises in immune
cell function,” he said.
Winters said the study was un
ique, representing the first time
that the effects of simultaneous
exposure to both electric,
magnetic and electromagnetic
fields will be measured.
The $125,000 study is one of
The studies were authorized
following a series of hearings on
a New York utility company’s
application for the construction
of a high-voltage power line.
Although the company was
granted permission to build the
line, the state recommended
that it carry only lower voltage
until the potential health ef f ects
could be studied.
According to Dr. Patrick Reil
ly of The Johns Hopkins Uni
versity in Baltimore, evidence
exists that under some condi
tions, humans can experience
short-term heatlh problems, de
pending on the type of expo
sure.
Reilly, who has conducted
power line transmission studies.
cited the annoyance of “cj
sparks” as an example
But he said claims oflj
term chronic effects, suchai
fatige and loss of appetite]
sexual drive reported b)
Russians, present a majot
search question.
Winters refused to speed
on the outcome of his reset!;
although he said thereisapi
bility that the effects m '
gest a capacity for incret
rat her t ban decreased immii
in cells exposed to electric
fields.
magnetic
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He said the results willk
particular importance torn I
pie who live in areas when li
mited space makes it necess |q|
for utility companies tob™
high -voltage wires down)
utility grids directly intop
lated areas.
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