Prolific Defense Expert Witness Abba Terr Comments On Sick Building Syndrome

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Sick Building Syndrome: is mould the cause?

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UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA.

Moulds are responsible for diseases in humans through the three pathogenetic

mechanisms of infection, allergy, and toxicity. Fungal infection is

especially a risk factor for immunodeficient patients, but it occurs in

immunocompetent patients as well. Fungal allergy is manifested as bronchial

asthma,

hypersensitivity pneumonitis, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, or

allergic

fungal sinusitis. Mycotoxicosis is almost exclusively the result of ingestion

of mould-contaminated foodstuffs. In each case there is specificity for the

etiologic mould. There is controversy regarding the ability of indoor

airborne mould spores to cause human disease through non-specific toxicity via

the

inhalation route. Pulmonary mycotoxicosis is an established, although rare,

occupational disease of farmers who inhale enormous quantities of mycotoxins,

endotoxins, and other toxic chemicals from contaminated silage. Other

conditions attributed to indoor airborne mycotoxin are unproven. These include

infantile pulmonary hemosiderosis, epistaxis, 'toxic encephalopathy', immune

dysregulation and a variety of subjective complaints without objective signs of

pathology such as fatigue, headache, dyspnea, gastrointestinal distress,

neuromuscular and skeletal complaints, etc. Non-specific irritation from moulds

via

the inhalation route is also a controversial subject that remains unproven.

Published studies alleging an epidemiologic causal relationship are

unconvincing.

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Sharon,

Thanks for sharing, but can't seem to get these links going even when pasting

them in. Any chance you can send them as " tiny urls " ?

Thanks,

Sam

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UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA.

Moulds are responsible for diseases in humans through the three pathogenetic

mechanisms of infection, allergy, and toxicity. Fungal infection is

especially a risk factor for immunodeficient patients, but it occurs in

immunocompetent patients as well. Fungal allergy is manifested as bronchial

asthma,

hypersensitivity pneumonitis, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, or

allergic

fungal sinusitis. Mycotoxicosis is almost exclusively the result of ingestion

of mould-contaminated foodstuffs. In each case there is specificity for the

etiologic mould. There is controversy regarding the ability of indoor

airborne mould spores to cause human disease through non-specific toxicity via

the

inhalation route. Pulmonary mycotoxicosis is an established, although rare,

occupational disease of farmers who inhale enormous quantities of mycotoxins,

endotoxins, and other toxic chemicals from contaminated silage. Other

conditions attributed to indoor airborne mycotoxin are unproven. These include

infantile pulmonary hemosiderosis, epistaxis, 'toxic encephalopathy' , immune

dysregulation and a variety of subjective complaints without objective signs of

pathology such as fatigue, headache, dyspnea, gastrointestinal distress,

neuromuscular and skeletal complaints, etc. Non-specific irritation from moulds

via

the inhalation route is also a controversial subject that remains unproven.

Published studies alleging an epidemiologic causal relationship are

unconvincing.

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Hello Sharon--I am the one who called you about 2 months ago from Oregon

thanking you for all of your hard work.

Concerning your article from San Francisco Medical center, I tried to pull up

Pub Med sites & nothing came up.  Anywhere you could direct me to get research

to counter this?  Thank you-  Loreli Thayer

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This guy needs to get Dr. Shoemaker's book, fast!

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