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Wind Farms & Health - Australian Medical Association

8 May 2014

AMA Vice President and Chair of the AMA Public Health Committee, Professor Geoffrey Dobb, said the available Australian and international evidence does not support the view that wind farms cause adverse health effects.

“The infrasound and low frequency sound generated by modern wind farms in Australia is well below the level where known health effects occur,” Professor Dobb said.

“And there is no accepted physiological mechanism where sub-audible infrasound could cause health effects.

To read the full statement, please see the attachment below.

wind_farms_and_health_2014.pdf