Re: Are you longing for fresh air? My answer: YES

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Mygla, what a wonderful report. I wish the air where I lived was so

good. I live near the Ohio River Valley which has air quality

problems and a very prominent mold/fungal story started here. I

admit to not knowing the details of it though. Dr Shoemaker

mentioned it to me as he used to work with someone here concerning

it. When you say you use a pump, do you mean you pull air into

machine to take count. I'd be interested to see what kind of count

you would get with a one hour mold petri dish outside? I get a very

colorful full petri dish of all kinds of mold outside my house and

have green algae that I must clean off porch every year because of

deep shade of two large maple trees no sun gets through. I took one

of the trees down to get more sun in.

I imagine all of the colder regions have less mold. This is based

on fact that thing deteriorate slower in cold termperatures and stop

deteriorating all together in freezing temperatures so there should

be less mold OUTSIDE, which makes me wonder if Canadian have less

trouble with mold. I'm will be retiring in a few years and intend

to move, so I have been paying attention to this sort of thing.

There was a report on the Today Show yesterday about a report on

particulate matter in the U.S. that said CA and NY were the worse

and Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana had the lowest. I have been

trying to get full report on that so I will be able to see

statistics of other states but haven't been able to find it. I

called the EPA and the only report they could think of was done in

2003, so why the Today Show got this I don't know.

>> Outdoor Location: 10618031, Outside

> Fungi Identified Outdoor Typical Outdoor Data by Date† by Location

> data Month: March 15 2006

>

> spores/m3 outdoor low med high freq %

> Generally able to grow indoors* iceland

> Alternaria - 7 27 210 48 - - - -

> Bipolaris/Drechslera group - 7 13 130 12 - - - -

> Chaetomium - 7 13 160 9 - - - -

> Cladosporium 7 51 430 4,800 93 - - - -

> Curvularia - 7 13 260 6 - - - -

> Nigrospora - 7 13 93 6 - - - -

> Penicillium/Aspergillus types 13 27 160 1,800 86 - - - -

> Stachybotrys - 7 13 460 3 - - - -

> Torula - 7 13 210 9 - - - -

> Seldom found growing indoors**

> Ascospores - 13 160 2,300 78 - - - -

> Basidiospores 7 27 450 6,700 93 - - - -

> Rusts - 7 20 370 21 - - - -

> Smuts, Periconia, Myxomycetes - 7 27 330 56 - - - -

> TOTAL SPORES/M3 27