EPA- http://ww.epa.gov/
EPA- "A Guide to Indoor Air Quality"- http://www.epa.gov/iedweb00/pubs/insidest.html/
Gulf Coast Environmental- Bio-remediation & infectious disease control of New Orleans post-Katrina
Casa da Vida Foundation- information, grants, and environmental solutions to the poor and needy. Post-Katrina in New Orleans is the current focus. http://www.casadavida.org/
Doug Kaufman- author, TV host
American Lung Association- ALA
ALA "Health House"
Envirocure- Larry Foster, director - Infectious disease control, IAQ
Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine- Dr. Allen Lieberman, MD- Medical Director
Broward County Government- "Is your house sick? The mold/air conditioner duct connection". Wet duct liner cannot be cleaned of mold.
http://www.co.broward.fl.us/agriculture/english/consfam/he638.htm
CNN-"Beware Black Mold in Your House, Attempting to Clean Mold Usually Only Spreads It"
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9711/05/deadly.mold/
EPA- the danger of ozone generators- http://www.epa.gov/iedweb00/pubs/ozonegen.html
Ozone is approved by the EPA for use as a sterilizing agent only in uninhabited buildings. Ozone is also called "negative ions", "super-oxygen", and other misleading terms. Ozone is a health hazard and can cause scarring of lung tissue.
American Academy of Pediatrics-Environmental Hazards to Children of Environmental Tobacco Smoke http://www.epa.gov/iaq/ets/aapkit/aapabstract.pdf
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology-
Harvard University- " Air Pollution Deadlier than Previously Thought"
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/press/releases/press03022000.html
National Institutes of Health-Medline, Indoor Air Pollution
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/indoorairpollution.html
Mayo Clinic- "Is Home Sweet Home Hazardous to Your Health?"
http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=FL00012
TIME- Beware:Toxic Mold "Is the fungus in your floorboards making you sick? With no clear answers, panic and lawsuits abound"
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,165155,00.html
Professional Builder- "Mold being Found in More Homes" -
"A study by the Mayo Clinic said that almost all chronic sinus infections suffered by nearly 40 million people in the United States were attributable to molds. More recent studies show that mold also parallels the huge asthma rate increase of the past two decades"
Professional Builder- "Lenders Threatened by Lack of Mold Removal Standards"
Health House- Indoor Air Quality- "Building Science Basics"
http://www.healthhouse.org/iaq/buildingscience.h
Property Owner Liable for Mold, Fungi, and Toxic Substances
| Delaware Superior Court has ruled that an apartment owner is liable to a resident whose health was damaged from exposure to toxic molds on the property (Stroot V. New Haverford Partnership, 1999 WL 753916, August 17, 1999.) The resident claimed that by failing to repair leaking roofs and defective bathroom plumbing, the property owner caused the resident's exposure to mold, fungi and other toxic substances. This exposure was alleged to have left the resident with severe asthma attacks; mental and emotional injuries requiring ongoing medical care; and sustained cognitive deficiencies. The property owner contended that the medical and scientific evidence presented by the plaintiff or damages related to future pain was speculative. Although the plaintiff was a cigarette smoker with a history of childhood allergies and asthma, the jury awarded the plaintiff $780,000 in damages. The court denied a motion by the property owner asking for a relief from the jury verdict because the damages award was speculative and so excessive that it should shock the judicial conscience. In making the denial, the court held that a jury could reasonably conclude that the plaintiff noted a worsening of her asthma symptoms after exposure to the environmental conditions found on the property. The defendant is currently preparing to file an appeal. |
The air-conditioned car: A potential source of fungal
allergens.
Journal of
Respiratory Diseases, May, 2001, by Bradley
F. Marple
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Chest,
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Dann, Frances
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What we now know about allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS)
Journal of
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F. Marple, Richard
L. Mabry
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Pulmonary aspergillosis, part 1: allergic disease and
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Khurana, Kuntal
Thaker, Gregory
C. Kane
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The Bible Warns of Mold
Leviticus 14: 33-57 (New Living Translation)
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "When you arrive in Canaan, the land I am giving you as an inheritance, I may contaminate some of your houses with an infectious mildew. The owner of such a house must then go to the priest and say, 'It looks like my house has some kind of disease.' Before the priest examines the house, he must have the house emptied so everything inside will not be pronounced unclean. Then the priest will go in and inspect the house. If he finds bright green or reddish streaks on the walls of the house and the contamination appears to go deeper than the wall's surface, he will leave the house and lock it up for seven days. On the seventh day, the priest must return for another inspection. If the mildew on the walls of the house has spread, the priest must order that the stones from those areas be removed. The contaminated material will then be thrown into an area outside the town designated as ceremonially unclean. Next the inside walls of the entire house must be scraped thoroughly and the scrapings dumped in the unclean place outside the town. Other stones will be brought in to replace the ones that were removed, and the walls will be replastered.
But if the mildew reappears after all these things have been done, the priest must return and inspect the house again. If he sees that the affected areas have spread, the walls are clearly contaminated with an infectious mildew, and the house is defiled. It must be torn down, and all its stones, timbers, and plaster must be carried out of town to the place designated as ceremonially unclean. Anyone who enters the house while it is closed will be considered ceremonially unclean until evening. All who sleep or eat in the house must wash their clothing.
But if the priest returns for his inspection and finds that the affected areas have not reappeared after the fresh plastering, then he will pronounce the house clean because the infectious mildew is clearly gone. To purify the house, the priest will need two birds, some cedar wood, a scarlet cloth, and a hyssop branch. He will slaughter one of the birds over a clay pot that is filled with fresh spring water. Then he will dip the cedar wood, the hyssop branch, the scarlet cloth, and the living bird into the blood of the slaughtered bird, and he will sprinkle the house seven times. After he has purified the house in this way, he will release the living bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way, the priest will make atonement for the house, and it will be ceremonially clean.
These are the instructions for dealing with the various kinds of contagious skin disease and infectious mildew, whether in clothing, in a house, in a swollen area of skin, in a skin rash, or in a shiny patch of skin. These instructions must be followed when dealing with any contagious skin disease or infectious mildew, to determine when something is ceremonially clean or unclean."