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

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Hi Serena,

I don't know if we are talking about the same study! But I won't deny

that you do have a point.

I'll try to find the source I was quoting that from.

Basically, the point I was trying to make is that stachy

developing in a house was almost always due to a very abnormally

damp situation, - and that statistically, the percentage of moldy

homes with *active* colonies of stachy was fairly small.

But actually, thinking about it, I do think you have a point in that

as we all know, stachy doesn't often show up in air sampling unless

its sporulating, and a building with a stachy problem

*in the past* can still be very *toxic* from stachy mycotoxins

without having stachy spores show up in air testing, which typically

just samples air and then examines it FOR SPORES microscopically.

We need affordable tests that test for mycotoxins.. And people need to know

>Subject: Re: Re: Sueing

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>That information came from a study that was originally published

>for the sole purpose of promoting the author's career and the

>aims of the business involved. The study itself was extremely

>flawed, and the original paper so states. If you go back read the

>original paper itself, you will see that this is so.

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>You really have to get past this idea that just because you read

>it on the internet, it must be true. Try to remember that there

>is a large number of people who read this board, even those most

>do not post actively. Most of them have no immediate way to sort

>fact from fiction based on such an unqualified statement with no

>references given, and I would hate to think that anyone assumed

>its appearance here gave it some credibility. People's lives and

>health are at risk. That is why they are here.

>

Did I give you that impression? If so, i'm sorry. I don't think

its true, though. I do think of myself as a fairly literate and

skeptical consumer of information, both internet-derived and

other.

>If you want to open these items for open discussion, that's one

>thing. But please be clear about it when you do so and post the

>links you used so others can see where you got the information.

>Otherwise, you put yourself in the position of furthering the

>very same propaganda that got us all here.

>

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No way do I want to do that. I read a lot and often save things

and i also have a good instinct on how to find things once seen.

So I'll try to locate the original ref in its context.

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>>LiveSimply <quackadillian@...> wrote: 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)