Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk)

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."

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Sensible then not

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

>> 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.

OK, I'm with you there.

>> Nevertheless effective treatments need to be found for these symptoms.

Now you lost me. So there's no link to reality, but we need to make accommodations and pay benefits (http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/09/04/woman-wins-disability-payments-for-wi-fi-allergy.html) anyway because people possess a belief?

If you really need a treatment, how about a nice backhand slap to the face?

Well, less of a problem now...

[cayenne8]

I mean, if it WAS a wifi allergy, then this girl has taken herself out of the gene pool and will help stop the propagation of this condition, if it exists.