THE WORK OF OLLE JOHANSSON

“For me,” said Johansson, “it was immediately clear that persons claiming skin reactions after having been exposed to computer screens very well could be reacting in a highly specific way and with a completely correct avoidance reaction, especially if the provocative agent was radiation and/or chemical emissions — just as you would do if you had been exposed to e.g. sun rays, X-rays, radioactivity or chemical odours.”
Johansson began to study the skin of these patients, and proved that they had a real skin condition that was provoked by sitting in front of a computer screen. The damage was similar to that caused by ultraviolet radiation from the sun. He also showed that the radiation from computers causes measurable changes even in the skin of “normal” people,” and also in the skin of laboratory animals.
He named the new disease “screen dermatitis.” However, since such individuals also usually complained of other symptoms, such as chest pain, memory loss, fatigue, insomnia, dizziness, nausea, and headache, the more general term “electromagnetic hypersensitivity” came into use.
Many people who worked in the electronics industry in Sweden, including an estimated 12% of the electrical engineers in that industry, became electrically sensitive, and helped form an organization called Föreningen för el-och bildskärmsskadade (Association for the Electrosensitive), or FEB. Due in part to the work of FEB and the research of Dr. Johansson, electrosensitivity is a fully recognized disability in Sweden.

“The world may be moving inexorably,” Johansson warns, “toward one of those tragic moments that will lead historians to ask: Why did they not act in time?”
ARTICLES BY OLLE JOHANSSON
“MYSTERY IN THE SKIN. Screen dermatitis, the effect of computer work on human skin.” An interview with Olle Johansson, 2001
http://www.feb.se/ARTICLES/OlleJ.html
http://www.feb.se/ARTICLES/OlleJ.html
COMMENTARY: MOBILE PHONES -WILL THE GOLDEN GOOSE BECOME THE MAD COW? 2001
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13878/20021116-0000/www.acnem.org/journal/pdf_files/20-2_commentary-mobile_phones.pdf
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13878/20021116-0000/www.acnem.org/journal/pdf_files/20-2_commentary-mobile_phones.pdf
CUTANEOUS MAST CELLS ARE ALTERED IN NORMAL HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS SITTING IN FRONT OF ORDINARY TVS/PCS – RESULTS FROM OPEN-FIELD PROVOCATION EXPERIMENTS, 2001
http://www.foodsmatter.com/es/computers_wifi_bluetooth/articles/johansson_tv_healthy_volunteers.pdf
http://www.foodsmatter.com/es/computers_wifi_bluetooth/articles/johansson_tv_healthy_volunteers.pdf
CANCER TRENDS DURING THE 20TH CENTURY
Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson, 2002
http://iddd.de/umtsno/cancertrends.pdf
Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson, 2002
http://iddd.de/umtsno/cancertrends.pdf
MELANOMA INCIDENCE AND FREQUENCY MODULATION (FM) BROADCASTING, 2002
http://schermatura.com/news/aehcorrection2002.pdf
http://schermatura.com/news/aehcorrection2002.pdf
MALIGNANT MELANOMA OF THE SKIN – NOT A SUNSHINE STORY!
http://www.tetrawatch.net/papers/fm_melanoma_sweden_4321.pdf
http://www.tetrawatch.net/papers/fm_melanoma_sweden_4321.pdf
LONG-TERM SICKNESS AND MOBILE PHONE USE
Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson, 2004
http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/lthhallberg.pdf
Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson, 2004
http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/lthhallberg.pdf
FM BROADCASTING EXPOSURE TIME AND MALIGNANT MELANOMA INCIDENCE,2005
http://avaate.org/IMG/pdf/melanoma_electromagneticbiologyandmedicine_2005.pdf
http://avaate.org/IMG/pdf/melanoma_electromagneticbiologyandmedicine_2005.pdf
HOW SHALL WE COPE WITH THE INCREASING AMOUNTS OF AIRBORNE RADIATION? 2006
http://ww.stopumts.nl/pdf/paper_johansson_airborne_radiation.pdf
http://ww.stopumts.nl/pdf/paper_johansson_airborne_radiation.pdf
ELECTROHYPERSENSITIVITY: STATE-OF-THE-ART OF A FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENT
Olle Johansson, 2006
http://adante.vingar.se/electrohypersensitivity1.pdf
Olle Johansson, 2006
http://adante.vingar.se/electrohypersensitivity1.pdf
The paper "Will we all become electrosensitive" was written by Hallberg and Oberfeldt, not by Hallberg and Johansson as stated above.
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