Monster Mold Threatens Health in the South

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Somebody was just asking me what I projected for New Orleans and my

response was " I think it will likely become the first city to be

abandoned due to toxic mold " . -

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" The real pariah is this thing called Stachybotrys chartarum. This

organism produces a greater variety of toxins and in greater

concentrations than any other mold that's been studied, "

[Guest guest]

But what will the government say? Katrina Fever, we have no idea why

it is happening or will what we already know hit the mainstream? Sure

is alot of liability at stake if they do that, so that's doubtful!!

When we win one of our many lawsuits, we will be building a hurricane

proof house with mold-proof materials. I know they have hurricane

houses built to withstand 250 mph winds, but ours will have to be mold-

proof to. And as far as stachy is concerned, there are molds with less

toxins that grow much more rapidly and have smaller spores more likely

to get airborne. Don't get me wrong stachy is bad, but I have seen

firsthand how fast aspergillus grows. Hell, when I worked at pizza

hut, I would predict when we would get sick by the weather. In the

spring it would rain alot and the ceiling would leak and the mold was

happy so it would grow. Then a front would pass and the humidity would

drop and the mold was mad. So it would release its mycotoxin-laden

spores looking for a new moist place to live and grow and this is when

we always got sick!! After awhile if it stayed dry for awhile the

spores would stop spreading and severe symptoms would subside. But

then the rains would come again. This is why at least here in Florida,

the fall and spring are the worst for mold. Because we keep bouncing

between wet and dry, so molds keep releasing spores when it drys after

they have been growing when it was wet. The humidity never stays low

here for long!! Of course, it's a whole different ball game when my

former work decided to hire an ac company to come during work hours

with an open make-line and remove a 500 lb chunk of ice from, I believe

it was the drainpan, over the walkin freezer and then blow out the duct

work with high-pressured air. Can you say huge exposure? My wife and

I thought that we were going to A) die from coughing or pass out from

lack of O2. get in a car wreck while delivering because we were

literally retarded and C) possibly kill ourselves and others while

driving. We only went back to work one more time a week later in the

sheer hopes that the place would finally be better, it wasn't. We had

enough of the long-term exposure with bouts of heavier exposure and

then a super exposure from hell! What would you have done? The amount

and durations of rain followed by dry weather along with the amount of

hours worked was directly related to the severity of our symptoms as

well as others. We had thought that our original manager GARY, was

just extremely forgetful we had no idea that the reason we would have

to remind him things 5 or 6 times was because of the mold. The people

who were there the longest had the most severe symptoms too. The

manager who had been there for at least 10 years was, well we thought

insane. Hindsight is 20/20!!

> Somebody was just asking me what I projected for New Orleans and my

> response was " I think it will likely become the first city to be

> abandoned due to toxic mold " . -

>

> http://enews.earthlink.net/article/hea?

> guid=20050927/4338c3c0_3ca6_15526200509272135842632

>

> " The real pariah is this thing called Stachybotrys chartarum. This

> organism produces a greater variety of toxins and in greater

> concentrations than any other mold that's been studied, "