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Australia: Work Ban on Mobile Towers Due to Cancer Fears

Lisa MacNamara writes on Australian IT:

Electrical workers have been barred from working near mobile phone towers, fearing links between emissions and a cancer cluster at a Melbourne office building.

The ban imposed by the Electrical Trades Union in Victoria, comes as RMIT University staff await the outcome of tests on radiofrequency emissions from two Telstra phone towers on the roof of the business faculty in Bourke Street. Seven employees, who all worked on the top two floors of the building, have developed brain tumours since 1999.

While many experts have insisted that no evidence exists of a link between mobile phones, mobile phone towers and cancer, the union likened the issue to asbestos, where the dangers of the material became apparent years later.

posted by Fergie @ 5/19/2006 05:20:00 PM