decontaminating items

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Hi, I have posted a few times in past week about this and am in process of

trying to

move and sorting out personal items among what to toss, what to decontaminate

and

itemize in case end up in court. As just spent over a week with my pets out of

home,

completely detoxed and am know back mostly going through stuff and looking for

place ( stayed with friend to get through finals) to move even temp.

I was told by a friend who had mold, leather should be able to be cleaned and

safe to

move, have leather couch / ottoman happened to find patch under ( now behind)

couch of greyish stuff engrained in hardwood floor -

also, what about electronics, artwork, framed with glass, and seperatley without

glass,

putting in direct sunlight plan - hopefully wont fade the pieces, wood hand

drum

with porous drum head , whicker baskets, and cookware / kitchenware.

just dropped off most silks not in use at moment and leather jackets at

cleaners.

Luckily most of wools and really good clothes went from car to cleaners when

moving

and never brought into unit since found mold while at cleaners.

Also, someone mentioned holes in walls, curious about that as part of problem

initially was a hole in wall damp got patched over, loose floor tiles that were

disintegrating and found a few weeks ago cracked floor in closet damp hardwood

adjacent wall to laundry room and some growth on wall. was told when moved in

for

some reason not to move anything from wall ie picture hooks etc.... left by

prior

tenant and not to put anything up -owners were very concerned with damage to

walls

having to repaint. mostly kept but did remove a few things and hang sheleves

before

any idea had beyond normal beach molds - those ones less inside then out,

mostly

concerned with the cladiosporum,stacybotrys, and basidiospores, curvulia, plus

the

aspergillius - My symptoms are pretty straightforward that have had and are

based

on direct contact with items within structure, landlord offered out of lease,

then tried

to pin on cats whic defiently not as when leave, am with four, and had blood

allergies

teseted a few years ago and results were only positive for rye grass and some

grass

pollens common in northwest like fresh hay and scotch broom - which dont

commonly occur in urban beach cities. allergies actually have always been

better by

beach / rivers etc..... old buildings seem to be only plaves have small problems

a lot

of stuff new since here - anyways any tips on what can decontaminate would

apprecitae and thanks for posts on other stuff .

Donnielle

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> GE eucalyptus tree investigation urged

> Science Daily

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> http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science & article=UPI-1-

> 20070614-13565200-bc-us-eucalyptus.xml

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> WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) -- Several U.S. environmental groups are

> upset concerning a possible link between a pathogenic fungus and

> genetically engineered eucalyptus trees.

>

> The organizations want the departments of Health & Human Services,

> Agriculture, Interior, and the Environmental Protection Agency to

> determine if the pathogenic fungal organism Cryptococcus gattii is

> present in genetically engineered eucalyptus trees being grown by

> ArborGen LLC in Alabama.

>

> The request was made by the Sierra Club, the Global Justice Ecology

> Project, The Center for Food Safety, the Dogwood Alliance, and the

> Southern Forest Network.

>

> " We know the Cryptococcus gattii pathogen is associated with

> eucalyptus trees in other countries and a federal investigation is

> urgently needed to fully assess ArborGen's proposed Alabama outdoor

> field trials of genetically engineered eucalyptus, " said Neil Carman

> of the Sierra Club.

>

> Smolker, a research biologist with the Global Justice Ecology

> Project, said " Cryptococcus gattii is considered by the Centers for

> Disease Control as an 'emerging infectious disease.' Inhalation of

> spores causes respiratory and central nervous system infection

> leading to fatal fungal meningitis. "

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