The ‘Silent Tsunami’: Is Your WiFi Contributing to the Rise of Superbugs?

January 31, 2025

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The ‘Silent Tsunami’: Is Your WiFi Contributing to the Rise of Superbugs?

Olle Johansson: Bacteria exposed to mobile phones and WiFi radiation become resistant to antibiotics

World Council for Health
Jan 16, 2025

What if the wireless tech that powers your everyday life—your phone, WiFi, and even baby monitors—was silently fueling the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria?

In this article Olle Johansson, Ph.D, delivers a chilling wake-up call: our love for convenience and progress might be helping bacteria outsmart the very antibiotics designed to save us.

The World Health Organization already calls antibiotic resistance the “silent tsunami”—a threat so severe it surpasses even the Covid-19 pandemic in its potential devastation. But Johansson takes it a step further, presenting evidence that electromagnetic radiation from devices like cell phones and WiFi may be accelerating bacterial resistance. Could our tech obsession be creating a perfect storm for superbugs to thrive? If left unchecked, this invisible threat could make once-minor infections untreatable and life-threatening. It’s time to hit pause on our wireless world—for the sake of life itself.

Stop! In the Name of Life!

Bacteria Exposed to Mobile Phones and WiFi Radiation Become Resistant to Antibiotics

Article Excerpts:

Occurrence of new, antibiotic-resistant, high-risk bacterial clones

A short time ago, in November 2024, I read that a multi-resistant strain of the Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria has taken hold in Europe. According to a new study, the occurrence of new, more resistant forms of a high-risk clone has increased sharply in recent years, including also in my own country, Sweden. Traditionally, E. coli bacteria are spread via water, food and contact with infected humans, the latter especially in hospitals where a lot of antibiotics are used.

By mapping the genetic mass of the E. coli bacteria, the European infection control
agency, The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), in collaboration with, among others, the Swedish Public Health Agency, has been able to show how the resistant bacteria that carry ESBL-CARBA (Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase with Carbapenemase Activity, a substance found in some bacteria that makes them resistant to certain antibiotics) has spread within and between European countries. The study was recently published in the journal Eurosurveillance (Kohlenberg et al. 2024).

”The study gives further evidence of the serious increase in multi-resistant bacteria that risks reducing the possibility of treating severe bacterial infections in the future. Urgent measures are required to counter the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Sweden and globally”, says Vilhelm Müller, investigator at the Swedish Public Health Agency.

Infections difficult to treat now will become very difficult, or even impossible, to treat in the near future … and that will also include ordinary, everyday ones!

Resistant bacteria a global health threat

The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies carbapenem-resistant bacteria as a global health threat and of the highest priority for research and development of new treatment methods. The ECDC study emphasizes the importance of continuing to develop and improve the conditions for reducing the spread of multi-resistant bacteria.

Antibiotic resistance, cell phone and WiFi radiations, and bacterial communication using microwaves

Surprisingly enough, nothing is – however – mentioned about the very recent results of several international research units like that of Taheri et al. (2017, see here), who have demonstrated that the exposure to 900 MHz GSM mobile phone radiation and 2.4 GHz radiofrequency radiation emitted from common Wi-Fi routers made Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli bacteria resistant to different antibiotics. These findings naturally have direct implications for the management of serious infectious diseases (cf. above), and may potentially lead to a future collapse of the global human population.

Another very important study is the US DARPA-funded one (Rao et al. 2022) which has found that bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, biofilms communicate using frequencies that are in the range used by Wi-Fi and 5G C-band. The experiment found that notable radiation is observed in the 3-4 GHz band coming from the Staphylococcus aureus biofilms.

Radiation from three identical biofilm samples was monitored and recorded over 70 days. Two distinct frequency bands, namely the 3.18 GHz and the 3.45 GHz bands, were identified as potential “communication bands”. Furthermore, long-term and short-term cycles of the total radiation intensity within the band were observed over the course of the experiment.

So this recent study indicates that bacterial cells in biofilms may use electromagnetic signals to communicate which are of the similar type as our own cell phone and WiFi signals! Biofilms are one of the most ubiquitous forms of biological systems on earth, and are commonly associated with infectious diseases. They are also responsible for contamination of medical devices and implants, deterioration of water quality, and microbial-induced corrosion.

This work confirms the presence of electromagnetic radiation within bacterial communities, which is a key requirement to demonstrate electromagnetic signalling among bacterial cells. The insight could lead to breakthroughs in demystifying how cells communicate as well as the advancement of important technologies in biology and communication systems. But, much more importantly, this is a very firm and strong warning to mankind to stop playing with biology here on Earth – we may have to very profoundly regret it.

Soil bacteria are also affected by radiation from mobile phone towers

It must also be noted that Sharma Antim Bala and coworkers (2018) have demonstrated the impact of the radiations transmitted by mobile tower base stations on microbial diversity in soil and antibiotic resistance patterns. Soil samples were taken from near four different base stations located in Dausa City, India, while control samples were taken far from any base stations.

A statistically significant greater antibiotic resistance was observed in microbes present in the soil near base stations compared to the control, using nalidixic acid and cefixime as antimicrobial agents (p<0.05). The authors stated that ”our findings suggest that mobile tower radiation can significantly alter the vital systems in microbes and turn them multidrug-resistant, which is the most important current threat to public health”.

The functional impairment electrohypersensitivity, food, bacteria, and artificial radiation

Finally, it should be noted that people with severe electrohypersensitivity have noticed a direct relationship between the severity of their functional impairment and sugar ingested (not white sugar, but sugary food), and as a result, heightened levels of electromagnetic field sensitivity. Such a direct relationship to their diet/internal bad gut load just from one day of cheating on a diet can result in a massively overwhelming and irritating increase of the electromagnetic field sensitivity during the next day.

So the impact on gut bacteria (E. coli; Candida albicans?) by diet perhaps may trigger attacks of electrohypersensitivity?

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