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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D e x t e R" data-source="post: 7430122" data-attributes="member: 276929">By dexter                                         Consider this. You get a  call on your mobile phone. Then you are  dead. If rumours flying around  are to be believed, this mobile virus  works this way: A person gets a  call from an unidentified number. He or  she picks up the phone. Poof! A  brain haemorrhage and the person is dead  or incapacitated. Rumours  claim 21 people have died in Kuwait from this  mobile virus, while many  others are in hospital. The hoax has  caused panic and confusion among mobile phone users  throughout South  Asia and has now reached Kuwait and the Gulf. While  few people actually  believe the stories about the alleged �ring of  death?, the rumours have  spread far and wide, with many sending the  stories to their friends and  family via text messages. Both mobile  carriers in Kuwait, MTC and  Wataniya, have dismissed the alleged killer  mobile phone virus. There  are more than 2.5 million mobile subscribers  in Kuwait. Theories  abound about how this virus  manages to kill its victims. The most  prominent suggests that an  extremely high-pitched screech is heard,  which causes blood vessels in  the brain to explode. This explanation has  rightly been pooh-poohed,  since a mobile phone speaker cannot produce  such high-frequency sounds.  One warning sign is that the killer number  appears in red on the  screen. That means those with monochrome displays  are dead meat. It  wouldn?t be a surprise if there is a surge in sales of  new cell phones.?Mobile devices are low power transceivers.  The  typical maximum output power of a mobile phone is two watts and the   highest frequency is two gigahertz. This can in no way harm a human,�   explained Abdul Qadir Sultan and Rizwan Bhawra, field engineers at MTC.   ?The US military has such kinds of weapons that stun a person or   temporarily deafen a person causing enormous pain, to avoid killing the   opponent etc. These military weapons operate at very high wattages. A   mobile phone hasn?t even fraction of this capability.� Even biological   viruses (or biological weapons like anthrax) cannot be spread by cell   phones since they are airborne, waterborne or require physical contact,   they said, adding that a mobile is an electronic device and not a   biological carrier. A Wataniya customer service agent said the   company was unaware of such a virus. ?It is not possible to get a  brain haemorrhage by sound waves,� said  Gerry Perez, a senior hearing  aid specialist. ? If one is exposed to  120 decibels of sound - akin to  the pounding of a jackhammer - for a  period of five hours, then one is  prone to heavy loss in hearing high  frequencies. Normal conversation is  of only 35 decibels, and if one  does hear a loud sound from a mobile  phone, the normal reaction is to  throw the phone away from the ear  reflexively,� he said. Perez explained that the brain is ensconced  in a thick skull, and  cannot be easily affected. ?Yes, if one is in  close proximity to an  explosion, the eardrum can get ruptured, since it  is soft tissue, but  the brain will only be damaged if it is impacted,�  he added. Rumours about this �killer virus? began in  Pakistan,  where they reached such a fever pitch that some mosques in  Karachi  announced that people were being killed by this virus and the  faithful  should be aware of the wrath of God. Mobile operators had to  release a  joint statement rubbishing such hearsay. The rumours then  spread to  neighbouring India and Afghanistan, even as far as  Bangladesh, causing  panic and confusion. There are also echoes of the hit Hollywood   movie �The Ring? in this affair. But whereas the victims took a week to   die in the movie, here they are alleged to die instantaneously. Critics   have warned of a multitude of dangers stemming from mobile phone use,   including hearing loss, brain cancer, impotence etc. It?s possible you   might die while chatting on your mobile, but only if you are driving  and  distracted by a call.D e X t e R . <a href="http://www.warezslavez.com/" target="_blank">source www.warezslavez.com</a></blockquote>

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