Re: Study on percentage of moldy homes found to have stachybotrys chartarum source

[Guest guest]

In '97, Banta of Sacramento based Restoration Consultants told me

that there is not a single house that is completely free of Stachy.

In '98 Cornell did a study that found significant Stachy in one out of

five large buildings in a study of several hundred buildings

ACCOMPANIED by people with known symptoms of reactivity to mold.

Whatever the numbers are - it's a lot!

And impossible to completely eradicate down to the last spore.

So my aim is not to avoid mold based upon " testing " , it is to stay on

the upside of the " immune power curve of exposure " to a ubiquitous

irritant.

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[Guest guest]

I wonder if this research along with stats came from a study that

PathCon Laboratories out of Atlanta did. If that is the case, don't

believe one word of any of their information. They work in

connection with the CDC, which is right down the road from them by

the way. If you look to see who PathCon Labs has employed you will

find that the majority has worked, or trained for the CDC or Emory

University. You might as well throw WebMD in there too. Unqualified

professionals......

Actually, only around

> >>2% of homes tested for mold have stachybotrys. You need to have

> >>really high humidity (~80%) for stachy to start growing, its not

> >>a normal situation.

> >>

> >>Its higher (the percentage of moldy houses) for the others.. But

> >>not all molds are toxic, and there are big variations in how

> >>toxic they are.

> >>

> >>If you have stachy or aspergilus/penicillium, the chances are

> >>high that you have a seious problem. Chaetmonium, Alternaria and

> >>a few others are also neurotoxic, carcinogenic, etc.

> >>

> >>(but not as bad, it seems, life-ruining wise)

>

[Guest guest]

--- In , " erikmoldwarrior " <erikmoldwarrior@e...>

wrote:

, what part of the country was this study done in? What age were the

buildings? Is this a

published study, I would like to read it.

Bobbie

>

> In '97, Banta of Sacramento based Restoration Consultants told me

> that there is not a single house that is completely free of Stachy.

> In '98 Cornell did a study that found significant Stachy in one out of

> five large buildings in a study of several hundred buildings

> ACCOMPANIED by people with known symptoms of reactivity to mold.

> Whatever the numbers are - it's a lot!

> And impossible to completely eradicate down to the last spore.

>

> So my aim is not to avoid mold based upon " testing " , it is to stay on

> the upside of the " immune power curve of exposure " to a ubiquitous

> irritant.

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>

[Guest guest]

Thank you for that. I appreciate it.

I'm not a babe in the woods, but clearly, don;t know a lot of this stuff..

Thank you.

[Guest guest]

It wasn't my intention to insult you, so I hope you didn't take it that way. The

bad info is just so insidious, and so carefully dolled up to look like

authoritative fact, that it takes a lot of work to unravel all the bs. (I didn't

unravel it myself, either. Haven't got that many hours in the day, or that much

brains in play. I've had a lot of help, and still learning.)

LiveSimply <quackadillian@...> wrote: Thank you for that. I appreciate

it.

I'm not a babe in the woods, but clearly, don;t know a lot of this stuff..

Thank you.

Serena

There is no such thing as an anomaly. Recheck your original premise.

...Ayn Rand,

paraphrased

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[Guest guest]

" picbobd " wrote:

> , what part of the country was this study done in? What age

were the buildings? Is this a

> published study, I would like to read it.

>

> Bobbie

As I recall - it was in the southwest and the buildings were all

fairly new. I read it in Time magazine which I still have in my old

papers - buried in storage. Not definitive enough to dig it out.

The most dangerous misconception people have is trying to project

conditions which might be likely to be toxigenic wastedumps and make

plans according.

I've been slamdunked in Vegas and had a WONDERFUL time in Florida.

Some of the newest buildings are the absolute worst.

Trying to conceive of which conditions may cause places to be toxic

and using these ideas as a guide will drive you crazy.

" It is where it is "

Perceive - evacuate - decontaminate!

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