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Letter: Letter

Published 26 January 2002

From Mike Wood

I wonder if a significant source of electromagnetic fields for people would
be electric blankets. You were originally supposed to use them to pre-heat your
bed, but many people now go to sleep with them switched on, and so are only a
few millimetres away from the transmitting wires.

Lewes, East Sussex

Issue no. 2327 published 26 January 2002

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