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  2. Fluorescent lamps and health - Wikipedia

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    The abstract of the report states that no suitable scientific evidence was available of a relationship between fluorescent lighting and several diseases in humans. The abstract states that in the worst case 0.05% of the European Union population have light-sensitivity conditions that may be affected by blue light or UV emitted by artificial ...

  3. Photosensitivity in humans - Wikipedia

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    Light sensitivity or photosensitivity refers to a notable or increased reactivity to light. Apart from vision, human beings have many physiological and psychological responses to light. In rare individuals an atypical response may result in serious discomfort, disease, or injury. Some drugs have a photosensitizing effect.

  4. The plague, fevers, tularemia: The diseases fleas can carry ...

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    Fleas can spread other diseases too Other flea-borne bacterial diseases may cause fever, body aches, nausea/vomiting, cough, rash, swollen lymph nodes, skin lesions/rashes, and/or other symptoms ...

  5. Causes of cancer - Wikipedia

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    Some substances cause cancer primarily through their physical, rather than chemical, effects on cells. [32] A prominent example of this is prolonged exposure to asbestos, naturally occurring mineral fibers which are a major cause of mesothelioma, which is a cancer of the serous membrane, usually the serous membrane surrounding the lungs. [32]

  6. Flea - Wikipedia

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    Fleas are vectors for viral, bacterial and rickettsial diseases of humans and other animals, as well as of protozoan and helminth parasites. [35] Bacterial diseases carried by fleas include murine or endemic typhus [34]: 124 and bubonic plague. [36] Fleas can transmit Rickettsia typhi, Rickettsia felis, Bartonella henselae, and the myxomatosis ...

  7. Electromagnetic radiation and health - Wikipedia

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    The classification of mobile phone signals as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" by the World Health Organization (WHO) — "a positive association has been observed between exposure to the agent and cancer for which a causal interpretation is considered by the Working Group to be credible, but chance, bias or confounding could not be ruled out ...

  8. The dangers of LED face masks you should know about - AOL

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    "The potential dangers of using at-home LED masks include headaches, eye strain, sleep disturbances, insomnia and mild visual side effects," she explained.

  9. Yersinia pestis - Wikipedia

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    It is a facultative anaerobic organism that can infect humans via the Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis). [3] It causes the disease plague, which caused the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in recorded history. Plague takes three main forms: pneumonic, septicemic, and bubonic.