To: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health Re: Reques…

To: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health Re: Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure — FR Doc. 2026-19252, Docket HHS-OASH-2026-0397 Authors: Independent researchers, Europe (Belgium, France, Luxembourg) Date: October 2026 1. Purpose The title restates a claim routinely made to those most directly affected. This comment and the nine attached documents were written on the basis of our analysis and our experience. 2. Perspective (Question 2) We respond as directly affected human beings and as independent researchers. We do not present an American case, but the European situation of an exposure to man-made electromagnetic fields that have become ubiquitous. 3. Definitions By electrosensitivity we mean a sensitivity to electromagnetic fields shared by all human beings, to varying degrees; by electro-hypersensitivity, its highest degrees. In our view, it is not a disease but a syndrome: a set of reactions of the body to an external source. This syndrome is particularly disabling for those who happen to be affected. 4. Testimony (Question 3) 3a. Sources. Mobile phone, desktop computer tower, internet router, then cell towers... 3b. Exposure. Since the second half of the 1990s: unable to hold a mobile phone to the ear for more than a few minutes, with the face heating up, in poorly covered areas where the handset transmitted at high power. 3c. Effects. Leg pain near the computer tower, intolerance near a router; urinary and digestive disorders, tachycardia, nausea, visual disturbances (flickering), insomnia, tinnitus, brain fog. 3d. Timeline. The symptoms, scattered at first, led to diagnostic wandering among successive specialists (urology, cardiology, gastroenterology, etc.), with no connection ever established. We made the connection ourselves: "Doctor, it comes from outside, it's not me, it comes from outside." Measuring instruments then allowed us to correlate our reactions with the measured fields. 3e. Medical evaluation. Full disability, at a rate above 66%, recognized in Belgium; after moving to France, a medical certificate addressing this matter. 3f. Steps to reduce exposure. We left Belgium; in July 2019, we surveyed the white and gray zones (areas with no or very weak mobile coverage) between southern Belgium and southern France; we then moved repeatedly as cell towers spread. Since March 2025, we have lived in an uninsulated mobile home in a mid-mountain area. There, the symptoms have subsided markedly and reproducibly. Returning to Belgium has become impossible; the last journey, made in 2019, could no longer be made today, because of the increased density of cell towers. 3g. Documentation. The attached documents, in particular Documents 1 and 8. We thus belong to those we call "wave refugees" (réfugiés des ondes): electro-hypersensitive individuals forced to change where they live in order to find refuge. As one of us worked as a fish farmer, we recall that trout, used as a biological indicator, are the first to react when water quality deteriorates; electro-hypersensitive individuals play this role with respect to the electromagnetic environment: that of sensitive witnesses. 5. Attached documents Each document states the questions it answers. Numbers refer to the questions of the Request; letters, to its sub-questions. The documents are also combined, with our conclusion, in a single complete file. The subjects addressed are part of an open publication, intended to receive further testimonies and contributions. 1. The Ubiquity of Waves (Q3, Q11g, Q15a-c, Q18) 2. Europe and Exposure Standards (Q5, Q6, Q12) 3. Measuring Waves (Q7, Q8, Q9) 4. Recognition of Electro-Hypersensitivity and Sensitive Populations (Q10, except 10f; Q11a-f) 5. Technologies and Infrastructure (Q13, Q15d-e) 6. Fauna and Flora (Q14) 7. Supplementary Information (Q16, Q17, Q18) 8. The Medical Profession and Electro-Hypersensitivity (Q4, Q9, Q10f, Q16) 9. Electro-Hypersensitivity in Brief, for Primary Care Physicians (Q9) 6. Closing statement We hold responsible for this situation those who have blanketed the land with towers and antennas whose effects on living beings are nonetheless widely documented. As a reminder, we obviously could not come and present this evidence ourselves: to do so, we would have to cross the Atlantic, pass through cities, and transit through airports that have now become "off-limits" to us. M. D. Non-binding document, drafted and transmitted with all reservations whatsoever.