[net.med] Harmful effects of CRT usage?

wpw@eisx.UUCP (W. Weill) (07/08/85)

The following question is being asked on behalf of a nameless friend of
mine. She would like to know if there is any real evidence that use of
CRTs while pregnant can cause birth defects. Several articles have
appeared in computer journals indicating that this might be true.
She wanted to know if anyone had seen these articles and remembered
where they had seen them.

Please post your responses to net.med or send mail to me, which I will
forward to her.

For anyone who is really curious as to why I am posting this article
rather than her, it is because she is pregnant (NOT me), but does not
wish this to become generally known yet.

ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (07/10/85)

> The following question is being asked on behalf of a nameless friend of
> mine. She would like to know if there is any real evidence that use of
> CRTs while pregnant can cause birth defects. Several articles have
> appeared in computer journals indicating that this might be true.
> She wanted to know if anyone had seen these articles and remembered
> where they had seen them.
> 
Well, it has been found that users of terminals connected to VMS machines
while pregnant have born children with severe mental retardation :-)