Re: Children in Katrina trailers may face lifelong ailments

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" A CDC study released May 8 examined records of 144 Mississippi

children, some of whom lived in trailers and others who did not. But

the study was confined to children who had at least one doctor's

visit for respiratory illness before Katrina. It was largely

inconclusive, finding children who went to doctors before the August

2005 storm were still visiting them two years after. "

" others who did not " ? Why are these children experiencing respiratory

problems if they did not even live in the formaldahyde of FEMA trailers? Will

this be investigated, too?

_http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/547514_

(http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/547514)

From Environmental Health Perspectives

Airborne Mold and Endotoxin Concentrations in New Orleans, Louisiana, after

Flooding, October through November 2005

Posted 12/07/2006

M. ; Mervi Hjelmroos-Koski; Miriam Rotkin-Ellman; S. Katharine

Hammond

Mold. Filamentous microfungi (mold) can threaten human health through

release of spores that become airborne and can be inhaled. Some molds produce

metabolites (mycotoxins) that can initiate a toxic response in humans or other

vertebrates (Robbins et al. 2000). Repeated exposure to significant quantities

of fungal material can result in respiratory irritation or allergic

sensitization in some individuals (Bush et al. 2006). Sensitized individuals

may

subsequently respond to much lower concentrations of airborne fungal materials.

Of

the thousands of types of fungal spores found in indoor and outdoor

environments, adverse health effects in humans have most frequently been

associated

with Alternaria, Aspergillus, Cladosporium, Penicillium, and Stachybotrys

(Hossain et al. 2004; Jarvis and 2005; O'Driscoll et al. 2005; Stark et

al.

2003).

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Makes you wonder if all the trailers that the school systems use are made

the same way?!! It is a nightmare that just gets worse by the minute!!

Children in Katrina trailers may face lifelong ailments

The Associated Press*

By JOHN GONZALES

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BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS. (AP) — The anguish of Hurricane Katrina should

have ended for Bouffanie and her daughter when they left their

FEMA trailer. But with each hospital visit and each labored breath

her child takes, the young mother fears it has just begun.

" It's just the sickness. I can't get rid of it. It just keeps coming

back, " said Bouffanie, 27, who was pregnant with her now 15-month-

old daughter, Lexi, while living in the trailer. " I'm just like, `Oh

God, I wish like this would stop.' If I had known it would get her

sick, I wouldn't have stayed in the trailer for so long. "

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they absolutely -are-

the " portables " used by public school systems across the country

are loaded with formaldehyde and are also notorious for -mold- problems

generations of children are being exposed because of

ignorance, arrogance and a scandalous public health cover-up

Clair

In a message dated 5/28/2008 12:11:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

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Makes you wonder if all the trailers that the school systems use are made

the same way?!! It is a nightmare that just gets worse by the minute!!

Children in Katrina trailers may face lifelong ailments

The Associated Press*

By JOHN GONZALES

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BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS. (AP) — The anguish of Hurricane Katrina should

have ended for Bouffanie and her daughter when they left their

FEMA trailer. But with each hospital visit and each labored breath

her child takes, the young mother fears it has just begun.

" It's just the sickness. I can't get rid of it. It just keeps coming

back, " said Bouffanie, 27, who was pregnant with her now 15-month-

old daughter, Lexi, while living in the trailer. " I'm just like, `Oh

God, I wish like this would stop.' If I had known it would get her

sick, I wouldn't have stayed in the trailer for so long. "

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What a lot of people don't know is that a certain Dr was down there and giving

Gov. people hell about this along time ago and than he was physically escorted

out of New Orleans and asked not to come back in not a very nice

way. & nbsp; & nbsp;

I think there health studies are a joke. I would go straight to the Public

schools(not private) and look at special Ed and special needs and look for any

increases. & nbsp; Which you know they will find. & nbsp; I know formaldhyde is a

big issue but so is mold, & nbsp; By not addressing the mold issue down there is

irresponsible and criminal.

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steroids and antibiotics? for toxic exposure? really sad. I like to

take all the people who say the illness cant be linked to the toxin

and put them in a sealed room with those toxins being their onky air

supply and see how long it takes for them to figure it out.