"David Lesher" wrote in message
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Joseph Gwinn writes:

I saw this article in The New England Journal of Medicine. Here is the
URL, unfortunately behind a paywall.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/360/13/1363

The gist is that a danish doctor had a patient who was getting
inappropriate cardiac shocks from an ICD (implantable cardioverter-
defibrillator) while in the shower, which turned out to be due to bad
house wiring causing a 50 Hz leakage current from showerhead to floor
drain.

I suspect it was a point-of-use waterheater in the head. Unknown
in the US; they are seen elsewhere.





I have seen them in Costa Rica. So they are in the West.