startpantingshortlyaftermicrowaveexposurebegins.Most
“display increased activity varying from restlessness to
extremeagitation.” Near the pointof death, weaknessand
prostrationoccur.Inthecaseofrabbits“within 5 minutes,
desperate attempts are made to escape the cage,” and the
rabbitsdiewithinfortyminutes.Michaelsonconcluded that
an increase in heat from microwaves produces damage
“indistinguishable from fever in general.”^81
AttheHellerInstituteofMedicalResearch,TelAviv,Israel,
inexperimentspublishedin 1971 andpaidforbytheUnited
StatesPublicHealthService,T.Rosenthal,Y.Shapiro,and
othersplacedthirty-threedogs“randomlyprocuredfromthe
local dog pound” in a temperature-controlledchamber and
forcedthemtoexerciseonatreadmillintemperaturesashigh
as 113 degreesFahrenheituntil“theycollapsedinheatstroke
orreachedapredeterminedrectaltemperature.”Twenty-five
ofthedogsdied.Ninemoredogswerethensubjectedtoa
temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit without treadmill
exercise.Onlytwoofthesedogssurvivedlongerthantwenty-
fourhours,andautopsiesshowedthatallhadhemorrhaged.
The experimenters concluded: “The findings are in
accordance with what is reported in the literature on
humans.”^82 Inafurtherreportpublishedin1973,thesame
researchers describe experiments on fifty-three dogs,
involving various combinations of heat and treadmill
exercise. Sixofthedogsvomited, eighthad diarrhea, four
wentintoconvulsions,twelvelostmusclecoordination,and
all salivated excessively. Of ten dogs whose rectal
temperaturereached 113 degreesFahrenheit,fivedied“atthe
momentofmaximumrectaltemperature”andtheotherfive
diedbetweenthirtyminutesandelevenhoursaftertheendof
theexperiment.Theexperimentersconcludedthat“thesooner