From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In  Bill Gill  writes:   
      
   >>   
   >In 1970 I was working for a small company making cardiac   
   >pace makers.  We received reports that people with pace makers   
   >were being affected by microwave ovens.  We did some tests and   
   >found that leaky microwaves could interfere with our pace makers.   
   >It wasn't a huge effect, you had to be pretty close, but they did   
   >interfere.   
      
   From what I was taught way back this problem was   
   from the magnetic fields associated with the way   
   microwave ovens worked, and not with the   
   microwaves themselves.  Hence a very quick   
   dropoff of problems if you were just a couple   
   of feet away.  (Inverse square law and all that).   
      
   Reason:  early pacemakers used a simple magnetic   
   relay to put them into "test mode".  So if you   
   went to the cardiologist for a checkup, they'd   
   take EKGs, etc., both with and without a magnet   
   over your chest.   
      
      
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