Allergic to the 21st Century?

Allergic to the 21st Century?

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In London, Sarah Dacre says she suffers such strong allergic responses to electrical appliances and mobile phones that she's moving out of the capital; in Somerset, Gillian McCarthy claims to have such extreme sensitivities to everything from household chemicals to electricity that she is allergic to her own hair.

Conventional medicine may be against them, but many sufferers insist they are 'human canaries' alerting us to the hidden dangers of how we all live. We once thought cigarettes and asbestos weren't doing us any harm - could we be wrong again?

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Friday 04 January 2008 Channel 4

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