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Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: December 2nd, 2015, 12:00pm UTC

An anonymous reader sends news that a UK woman named Debra Fry has begun a campaign to raise awareness for "electro-hypersensitivity" (EHS) after the suicide of her daughter, Jenny, earlier this year. Fry says her daughter was allergic to Wi-Fi, and blames Jenny's school for not removing wireless routers and other networking equipment. A 2005 report from the World Health Organization said, "EHS has no clear diagnostic criteria and there is no scientific basis to link EHS symptoms to EMF exposure. Further, EHS is not a medical diagnosis, nor is it clear that it represents a single medical problem." School officials were firm in declining to remove the equipment without solid evidence supporting Fry's claims. A public health official said, "The overall scientific evidence does not support the suggestion that such exposure causes acute symptoms or that some people are able to detect radiofrequency fields. Nevertheless effective treatments need to be found for these symptoms."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Mother+Blames+Wi-Fi+Allergy+For+Daughter's+Suicide%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1OG4XXl"img src="http://slashcdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F12%2F02%2F1549212%2Fmother-blames-wi-fi-allergy-for-daughters-suicide%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://slashcdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/15/12/02/1549212/mother-blames-wi-fi-allergy-for-daughters-suicide?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/15/12/02/1549212/mother-blames-wi-fi-allergy-for-daughters-suicide?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/Se-S9Cp1Zik" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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