Spain: static electricity present in the new headquarters of Gas Natural might have sickened over 200 employees

The number of victims from the "sick edifice syndrome" is already as high as 204 out of the 1,000 employees working at the headquarters of the company Gas Natural in Barcelona and the management is not ruling out the possibility that new case are going to appear. People concerned are suffering from semi-circular lipoathropia, a skin infection which manifests itself through the loss of fat tissues on muscles and causes a lumpy aspect of the concerned body parts, most of the time thighs, arms and calves. For the moment, the excess of static electricity caused by electro-magnetic waves is suspected to be the cause. (Ref. 070302)
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The company’s brand new headquarters had been inaugurated at the beginning of December 2006. Hardly four months later, on March 1, 2007, it had to be emptied for to days to try and settle the infections’ causes, which, so it seems, come from an excess of static electricity in an environment that is too dry. To solve this problem, 45 humidifiers have already been installed in the building’s twenty floors, and about twenty others should be added while the installation of a new ventilation system

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