Wind Wise Massachusetts: Wind Turbines Adversely Affect Health, New Studies Show

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BOSTON, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two new, peer-reviewed studies show that there is evidence that individuals living near industrial wind turbines are at risk for a number of health ailments, including stress and sleep disturbance.
"Industrial wind turbines can harm human health if sited too close to residents," according to a paper in the May, 2013 issue of Canadian Family Physician.
"The documented (medical) symptoms are usually stress disorder-type diseases ... and can represent serious harm to human health," the paper's authors stated.
In The Journal of Laryngology and Otology, the authors reported in March that "there is ample evidence of symptoms arising in individuals exposed to wind turbine noise."
"...there is an increasing body of evidence suggesting that infrasound and low frequency noise (caused by the wind turbines) have physiological effects on the ear," according to Amir Farboud, MD, of Glan Clwyd Hospital in Wales, one of the researchers.
The study pointed out that "a large body of evidence now exists to suggest that wind turbines do disturb sleep and impair health at distances and sound pressures levels that are permitted in the United Kingdom."
The paper -- Wind turbine syndrome: fact or fiction? -- was designed to address the effects of infrasound and low frequency noise from wind turbines and review the literature supporting the validity of "wind turbine syndrome."

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