Mold at school worries parents

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Mold at school worries parents

Tests find room at Plantation potentially toxic

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Lafayette Parish School System officials say tests at Plantation Elementary

have found a potentially harmful

mold in one classroom.

The parents of two Plantation students say their children have tested

positive for mold toxins.

's children - one first-grader and one fifth-grader - were being

testing Monday morning after bouts with stomach aches and deep circles under

their

eyes. His fifth-grader also suffered a case of shingles, which is rare for a

child that age, he noted.

For nine months, Phil Philliber suffered from episodes of vomiting, blacking

out, violent headaches and diarrhea before doctors learned that he had been

exposure to the mold toxin trichothecene

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