write congress- my letter

[Guest guest]

Dear Sirs,

I am concerned about the lack of protection the american public is recieving

from the

government and from the medical community regarding mold illness.

As I have read recently, governors around the country are allowed to move into a

safe

home while the public mansions are having mold removed. This is a good thing. So

why is

there all this mis-information put out by certain doctors in the medical

community saying

that mold is not harmful to health?

I was nearly dying from a fungal infection that no doctors in Minnesota could

identify,

blaming me instead for being hysterical. Thank God I found a doctor in Wisconsin

that is

not wearing the blinders, and knew what had incapacitated me, and also how to

cure me.

I had not heard of mold illness, or toxic mold or anything before I was

diagnosed with a

fungal illness, and put on antifungals.

The State Medical Board needs to answer for this oversight in treating the

average person.

Many people are suffering needlessly, undiagnosed, because of a prejudicial

attitude by

the medical professionals here in Minnesota. It is a travesty that with all the

money spent

on medicine in this state, that this is occuring.

The so called " science " that is backing up the claims of these doctors is

biased. I have

done some of my own looking on PubMed (gov't database of medical abstracts), and

the

results show unequivocally that fungal illness are both extant and very serious.

This may

become the most important public health issue of the century, especially if it

is swept

under the rug by people with vested interests; like insurance companies, not

wanting to

pay out, and construction companies, whose methods and materials are flawed and

promote the very thing we want to avoid (mold growth).

The sooner this is recognised and dealt with in a health protecting way, the

sooner

people's health will be regain, and a disaster may yet be averted.

I am also thinking of the children that are going to be taken back into the

disaster areas of

the hurricane, and how sick they will become from the mold that is now growing

everywhere down in the flood damaged areas.

I thank you for taking the time to read my concerns.