A proposed explanation for thunderstorm asthma and leukemia risk near high-voltage power lines: a supported hypothesis

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine

• Publication date

  2018-04-03

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/15368378.2018.1466309PMID 29708457
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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