Injury from lightning strike while using mobile phone: Statistics and physics do not suggest a link

doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7558.96

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Ramsey M Faragher, PhD student (rmf25@cam.ac.uk)

Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE

EDITOR—The letter by Esprit et al reporting a case of injury from lightning strike while using a mobile phone required some better research into the physics of lightning, conductors, and statistics.1

Firstly, the statistics are few. Three mentions of people using a mobile phone while being hit by a lightning strike is by no means compelling evidence for a correlation for either …