Toxins: accuracy, precision, and repeatability of epidemiological evidence

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"If you don't want to know if symptoms indicative of poisoning could plausibly be occurring from the multiple microbial toxins found in water damaged buildings, then just focus on one inhaled mycotoxin at a time and conclude these illnesses are not happening based on this myopic focus. " - Sharon, 3/36/08.

Why is it, then, that the so-called Cleveland cluster of hemosiderosis (circa 1995-97) has never re-appeared? Neither in Cleveland nor anywhere else in the world?

Regardless of studying single or multiple Stachybotris mycotoxins and their effects, no other cluster has yet to be documented. And never having studied potential synergistic effects of smoking, drug use, pre-mature birth, teenage pregnancy, and/or other causes? And never having sufficiently or accurately described the actual water damage, type, duration, or location, nor ever having actually accurately defined the extent of the mold growth?

(Please note: at least one case of hemosiderosis from a little later, around 1998, [which may or may not have been included in later summaries of total cases, I don't know] is reported by the newborn's pediatrician to have been born with a morbid complication in addition to the hemosiderosis; however one of there researchers concluded that the newborn's hemosiderosis was the cause of death, was caused by mold that was never found in a home that the newborn never lived. These are th facts, not beliefs)

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