Re:Another paper on mold exposure and health shows that mold is harmless

[Guest guest]

After reading the actual article, I must conclude that your statements are unfounded. There is no indication in this paper that these infections were contracted from household exposure to mold. In fact, all of the sources listed seem to be from outdoor environments. Although lots of lawyers and environmental air quality consultants make a lot of money off this mold hysteria, there is still no scientific evidence that household mold has ever been associated with any clinical infection. Please provide us with some evidence to the contrary.Danny

[Guest guest]

Mold is mold. People tend to get high exposures indoors in moldy

buildings because of the confined nature of indoor spaces. All species

of " indoor " mold originally evolved outdoors. If there wasn't mold, we

wouldn't have dirt, nothing would decay. In that sense, we need it.

However, the high levels of MYCOTOXIN production by mold in idoor

spaces is not seen unless youhave high humidity. Normal building

conditions in well-maintained, properly insulated rarely result in

that kind of humidty. Almost all of thr really sick buildings are also

buildings in which maintenance has been deferred or they are in some

other way being used in a way which they were not designed for. (For

example, modifications were done that were badly thought out, or leaks

not fixed that needed to be attended to.)

Thats why many people are afraid of the truth. They are guilty of

taking a calculated risk in full knowledge that they are making people

ill and thinking that they could get away with it forever.