July 20, 2015
Health, Noise, Portugal

Low Frequency Noise-Induced Pathology: Contributions Provided by the Portuguese Wind Turbine Case

Castelo Branco, Nuno; Alves-Pereira, Mariana; et al.

Summary:
In November 2006, 4 Industrial Wind Turbines (IWT) were installed in the vicinity of a residential dwelling in Portugal. In March 2007, this team was contacted by the family requesting assistance in dealing with their Infrasound & Low Frequency Noise (ILFN) problem that they claimed was being generated by the IWT. The family began legal proceedings for the removal of the IWT [1], and in September 2007, this team’s first report [2] was presented at the 2nd International Meeting on Wind Turbine Noise. In June 2010, a follow-up report [3] of this case was presented at the 14th International Meeting on Low Frequency Noise and Vibration and its Control, wherein ILFN-induced pathology was confirmed through histology in this family’s thoroughbred horses [4]. The goal of this report is to provide second follow-up to this case, five years later.

Nuno A. A. Castelo Branco, M.D., Senior Surgical Pathologist
Mariana Alves-Pereira, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineer, Lusófona University
Augusto Martinho Pimenta, M.D., Senior Neurologist, Julio de Matos Hospital
José Reis Ferreira, M.D., Senior Pneumologist, Clínica Doentes Pulmonares
Lisbon, Portugal

Presented at EuroNoise 2015, 31 May–3 June, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Download original document: “Low Frequency Noise-Induced Pathology: Contributions Provided by the Portuguese Wind Turbine Case [5]”

URL to article:  https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/low-frequency-noise-induced-pathology-contributions-provided-by-the-portuguese-wind-turbine-case/

URLs in this post:

[1] removal of the IWT: https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/portuguese-supreme-court-orders-4-wind-turbines-removed/

[2] first report: https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/in-home-wind-turbine-noise-is-conducive-to-vibroacoustic-disease/

[3] follow-up report: https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/portuguese-family-and-horses-affected-by-low-frequency-wind-turbine-noise/

[4] histology in this family’s thoroughbred horses: https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/acquired-flexural-deformity-of-the-distal-interphalangic-joint-in-foals/

[5] Low Frequency Noise-Induced Pathology: Contributions Provided by the Portuguese Wind Turbine Case: https://docs.wind-watch.org/Euronoise2015-000602.pdf