Re: The trouble with mold Basement water turns into woes for tenant, landlord and ag

[Guest guest]

This story illustrates the evil and punitive double sided face of the law

where it interescts with greed and willingness to punish people for standing

up for their lives.

Notice how she is dammed if she does and dammed if she doesn't. But can she

just move? Will she find that place she wants to move to?

No, because now of course, they have blacklisted her with the landlord's bad

renter reporting agencies so nobody will have her.

THAT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.

But it isn't, is it. No, since mold is " healthy and safe " , her witholding

rent is deemed a criminal act? But if she didn't withold rent, then

it is deemed tacid acceptance of the situation in court too, isn't it OFTEN?

Thats what I get if I read between the lines here.

This is a very real situation that is effecting real people, like us.

That could be us.

On 7/30/07, tigerpaw2c <tigerpaw2c@...> wrote:

>

> The trouble with mold

> Basement water turns into woes for tenant, landlord and agencies.

> South Bend Tribune, South Bend, IN*

> JOSEPH DITS

> Tribune Staff Writer

>

> http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?

> AID=/20070730/News01/707300311

> SOUTH BEND — Water has turned the basement of Ward's rental

> house into a breeding ground for mold.

>

>

[Guest guest]

I just realized why she probably feels SO ill.. Its this -

Go to PubMed and plug in latex and ergot

You get:

http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/full/71/6/3106?view=long & pmid=15933008

Appl Environ Microbiol. 2005 Jun;71(6):3106-11.

Abundant respirable ergot alkaloids from the common airborne

fungus Aspergillus fumigatus.

Panaccione DG, Coyle CM.

Division of Plant & Soil Sciences, Genetics & Developmental

Biology Program, 401 Hall, West Virginia University,

town, West Virginia 26506-6058, USA. danpan@...

Ergot alkaloids are mycotoxins that interact with several

monoamine receptors, negatively affecting cardiovascular, nervous,

reproductive, and immune systems of exposed humans and animals.

Aspergillus fumigatus, a common airborne fungus and opportunistic

human pathogen, can produce ergot alkaloids in broth culture. The

objectives of this study were to determine if A. fumigatus accumulates

ergot alkaloids in a respirable form in or on its conidia, to quantify

ergot alkaloids associated with conidia produced on several different

substrates, and to measure relevant physical properties of the

conidia. We found at least four ergot alkaloids, fumigaclavine C,

festuclavine, fumigaclavine A, and fumigaclavine B (in order of

abundance), associated with conidia of A. fumigatus. Under

environmentally relevant conditions, the total mass of ergot alkaloids

often constituted >1% of the mass of the conidium. Ergot alkaloids

were extracted from conidia produced on all media tested, and the

greatest quantities were observed when the fungus was cultured on

latex paint or cultured maize seedlings. The values for physical

properties of conidia likely to affect their respirability (i.e.,

diameter, mass, and specific gravity) were significantly lower for A.

fumigatus than for Aspergillus nidulans, Aspergillus niger, and

Stachybotrys chartarum. The demonstration of relatively high

concentrations of ergot alkaloids associated with conidia of A.

fumigatus presents opportunities for investigations of potential

contributions of the toxins to adverse health effects associated with

the fungus and to aspects of the biology of the fungus that contribute

to its success.

PMID: 15933008 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]