Dr. Lipsey's Report Re: New Orleans Home Inspections

[Guest guest]

Dr.Lipsey,

I really appreciate the update and all the hard work that you and

Dr.Shoemaker have done and continue to do to help educate the

public. The time, knowledge and compassion from both of you is

deeply appreciated by all. You both are definate leaders in our

fight for justice and recognition.

Thank you,

KC

>

> Mr. Carstens. Here is the report I promised..............

>

> I inspected the ship, Scotia Prince, and talked to many of the

residents on

> board the ship Feb 11 and 12, and saw the preliminary data from

Dr. Ritchie

> Shoemaker's study regarding the health of ship board workers. The

Scotia

> Prince workers had few if any symptoms and all of the St Bernard

Parish

> residents, who were living on the Scotia Prince, said they felt

better on the ship

> than when they were walking in the neighborhoods in St Bernard.

They were

> breathing filtered, safe air on board the Scotia Prince and

getting showers and

> three meals a day.

>

> I was shocked to find out that the Habitat for Humanity

volunteers that

> I toured with, and who were trained by FEMA, had been told that

mold cannot

> hurt you and you do not need any protective equipment. This was

totally wrong

> and I gave them the 800 phone number of the lab that could

overnight the

> proper safety equipment to them c/o the Scotia Prince since none

of them had

> mailing addresses. Highly pathogenic endotoxins from gram

negative bacteria were

> found earlier by NIOSH scientists and personnel from the

Louisiana Dept. of

> Health and the levels were 20 times above normal on average. The

levels were

> not only high inside the flooded homes but also in the ambient

air in the

> neighborhood. Gram negative bacteria all produce endotoxins,

similar to

> mycotoxins used in germ warfare at very high levels to kill

people within minutes,

> and include Legionella bacteria, Salmonella, E. coli from human

sewage, etc.

>

> I inspected almost every area and neighborhood in St. Bernard

Parish on

> Friday and Saturday and took samples and I took pictures, which I

will send

> in the next e-mail in a few minutes. Most of the residents doing

remediation

> of their homes were wearing protective equipment and dragging

contaminated

> debris to the curbside. I inspected many homes and the stench of

rotting

> materials was in every home and there was significant water

damage and high levels

> of pathogenic molds and bacteria in every home since the homes

had been under

> water for days and have been growing mold for months. There were

snakes

> living in some of the homes and marsh grass in most of the homes

and many had

> marsh grass on top of the roof indicating how deep the water was

in those areas

> of St. Bernard Parish. None of the homes were safe to occupy or

even be inside

> for any length of time without personal protective equipment

including a

> HEPA respirator, rubber gloves, goggles and a Tyvek suit.

>

> Most of the homes had extremely high levels, the highest I

have ever

> seen in my 35 years of testing homes for toxic mold. The levels

will be in

> the tens of millions of spores per gram of dirt on furniture or

on wallpaper,

> etc. and the most common pathogenic mold appeared to be

Stachybotrys, which

> can produce mycotoxins and is sometimes called the " black

mold " , the most

> toxic of all toxic molds. It is 10 times more toxic that the most

pathogenic of

> the Penicillium or Aspergillus molds which also can produce

mycotoxins.

> Stachbotrys is uncommon in contaminated homes and I rarely find

it in even the

> most sick of the sick buildings. Stachybotrys produces

tricothocenes and highly

> purified forms were developed by the U.S. Army and never used and

have since,

> probably been destroyed.

>

> Many of the homes must be bulldozed and burned since they

cannot be

> salvaged. The Oil spill has contaminated 30 to 40 square

blocks of St.

> Bernard Parish so EPA has declared it a contaminated zone

requiring

> remediation. None of the Scotia Prince residents should return

even to the neighborhoods

> without proper protective equipment much less return to their

destroyed

> homes and try to live in them.

>

>

> Dr. L. Lipsey ( 904 )398-2168

> 550 Water St, #1230, ville, FL 32202

> Forensic Toxicologist and former Adjunct Professor,

> Univ. N. Florida, Div. Continuing Educ., HazMat/OSHA

> Fla. Comm. College Jax, Institute of Occ. Safety & Health,

> Clinical Toxicology Advisory Comm., Florida Poison Info Center,

Jax.

> _www.richardlipsey.com_ (http://www.richardlipsey.com/)

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Dr. Lipsey,

Thank you very much for the informative, but

distressing report on the condition of the New Orleans

neighborhoods. I have also been reading that FEMA is

starting to cut off payments for hotel rooms for some

40,000 former residents of New Orleans. Those people

have really been abandoned while our government spends

billions in Iraq....this is really awful. Judi

--- RLLIPSEY87@... wrote:

> Mr. Carsten. Here is the report I

> promised..............

>

> I inspected the ship, Scotia Prince, and talked to

> many of the residents on

> board the ship Feb 11 and 12, and saw the

> preliminary data from Dr. Ritchie

> Shoemaker's study regarding the health of ship

> board workers. The Scotia

> Prince workers had few if any symptoms and all of

> the St Bernard Parish

> residents, who were living on the Scotia Prince,

> said they felt better on the ship

> than when they were walking in the neighborhoods in

> St Bernard. They were

> breathing filtered, safe air on board the Scotia

> Prince and getting showers and

> three meals a day.

>

> I was shocked to find out that the Habitat for

> Humanity volunteers that

> I toured with, and who were trained by FEMA, had

> been told that mold cannot

> hurt you and you do not need any protective

> equipment. This was totally wrong

> and I gave them the 800 phone number of the lab

> that could overnight the

> proper safety equipment to them c/o the Scotia

> Prince since none of them had

> mailing addresses. Highly pathogenic endotoxins

> from gram negative bacteria were

> found earlier by NIOSH scientists and personnel

> from the Louisiana Dept. of

> Health and the levels were 20 times above normal on

> average. The levels were

> not only high inside the flooded homes but also in

> the ambient air in the

> neighborhood. Gram negative bacteria all produce

> endotoxins, similar to

> mycotoxins used in germ warfare at very high levels

> to kill people within minutes,

> and include Legionella bacteria, Salmonella, E.

> coli from human sewage, etc.

>

> I inspected almost every area and neighborhood

> in St. Bernard Parish on

> Friday and Saturday and took samples and I took

> pictures, which I will send

> in the next e-mail in a few minutes. Most of the

> residents doing remediation

> of their homes were wearing protective equipment and

> dragging contaminated

> debris to the curbside. I inspected many homes and

> the stench of rotting

> materials was in every home and there was

> significant water damage and high levels

> of pathogenic molds and bacteria in every home since

> the homes had been under

> water for days and have been growing mold for

> months. There were snakes

> living in some of the homes and marsh grass in most

> of the homes and many had

> marsh grass on top of the roof indicating how deep

> the water was in those areas

> of St. Bernard Parish. None of the homes were safe

> to occupy or even be inside

> for any length of time without personal protective

> equipment including a

> HEPA respirator, rubber gloves, goggles and a Tyvek

> suit.

>

> Most of the homes had extremely high levels,

> the highest I have ever

> seen in my 35 years of testing homes for toxic

> mold. The levels will be in

> the tens of millions of spores per gram of dirt on

> furniture or on wallpaper,

> etc. and the most common pathogenic mold appeared

> to be Stachybotrys, which

> can produce mycotoxins and is sometimes called the

> " black mold " , the most

> toxic of all toxic molds. It is 10 times more toxic

> that the most pathogenic of

> the Penicillium or Aspergillus molds which also can

> produce mycotoxins.

> Stachbotrys is uncommon in contaminated homes and I

> rarely find it in even the

> most sick of the sick buildings. Stachybotrys

> produces tricothocenes and highly

> purified forms were developed by the U.S. Army and

> never used and have since,

> probably been destroyed.

>

> Many of the homes must be bulldozed and burned

> since they cannot be

> salvaged. The Oil spill has contaminated 30

> to 40 square blocks of St.

> Bernard Parish so EPA has declared it a contaminated

> zone requiring

> remediation. None of the Scotia Prince residents

> should return even to the neighborhoods

> without proper protective equipment much less return

> to their destroyed

> homes and try to live in them.

>

>

> Dr. L. Lipsey ( 904 )398-2168

> 550 Water St, #1230, ville, FL 32202

> Forensic Toxicologist and former Adjunct Professor,

> Univ. N. Florida, Div. Continuing Educ., HazMat/OSHA

>

> Fla. Comm. College Jax, Institute of Occ. Safety &

> Health,

> Clinical Toxicology Advisory Comm., Florida Poison

> Info Center, Jax.

> _www.richardlipsey.com_

> (http://www.richardlipsey.com/)

>

>

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