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Mucor mold under a
microscope taken during mold sample analysis.
Stachybotrys toxic mold
growing on and in drywall.
[from Case Western Reserve U.] |
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Las Vegas Mold Inspector
in the News
The news article below was on
page 1 of the St. George, Utah,
Daily Spectrum newspaper on March 9, 2002
TOXIC MOLD INVADES HOUSE,
SICKENS FAMILY
By Jane Zhang, March 9,
2002
Ivins — Tiffany McDonald, 21, knew there must
be something
enigmatic about her house near 200 East in Ivins.
Two years ago, her grandmother, Mary Brennan,
who was
described as an energetic hiker, unexpectedly died of breast cancer at age
64,
three years after she moved into the $60,000 house. Then, during her
pregnancy, McDonald
spent 10 days in the hospital because of “a weird
smell” in the house.
And only nine months after her daughter,
Lainee, was born, the
baby was bleeding internally, beginning a series of ailments from
asthma to
diarrhea to bacterial infection.
“Seriously, I would rather leave everything
than feeling the way we
felt,” said McDonald, who moved to her parents’ house in St.
George
about seven weeks ago. The best way, she said, “probably is just forcing
yourself
out, bankrupt and start over.”
The condemnation of her house was blamed on
toxic mold, which
had invaded the bathroom, closet and bedroom. The fungus, which has 200
species, is routinely found in the United States, such as stachybotrys,
chaetomium and
penicillium, display black, gray, brown and other colors
with a musty smell. Spreading
through spores, mold can cause health
problems to adults and pets if they inhale it,
swallow it or touch moldy
surfaces. But it’s especially hazardous to small children, the
elderly and
people with weakened immune systems.
In 2000, Newsweek magazine reported that mold
accounted for 6
to 7 percent of all chronic sinusitis cases. A report by the U.S.
Department
of Housing and Urban Development last year confirmed that certain types
of
mold can lead to asthma, allergies, infectious diseases and such toxic
effects as aflatoxin-induced liver cancer.
In recent years, mold has triggered thousands
of lawsuits, prompting
the first mold bill in the nation last year, which required
California home
sellers to disclose mold problems. Even Erin Brockovich, made famous by
the movie with her name, fought against landlords and insurers for the mold
contamination
in her house. In 2001, a Texas court awarded $32.1 million
to victims exposed to
extensive mold damage in their homes.
Phillip Fry, a certified mold inspector and
manager of Mold
Inspector in Hurricane, said mold exists in the southwestern desert area
because of the wide use of swampcoolers, which are susceptible to leaking
while traveling
from the roof down into the house. Mold, which grows in
dark, moist and warm
environments, can suck nutrition and water from
various building materials, such as
cardboard, wallpaper and wooden
substances.
McDonald’s father, Paul Brennan, has recently
quit his job as a
crane operator to become an independent contractor working with Fry. On
a recent afternoon, Brennan, dressed in a Tyvek protective suit, one-piece
eye goggles
and gloves, moved chairs, toys and furniture into a clean tent
with double insulation.
After a chemical spray, he turned on a fan for about
an hour to drive out swarms of
colonies.
When his mother bought the house, Paul
Brennan said, the previous
owner had reported flood damage in the house. Mary Brennan
spent more
than $10,000 to remodel the house, blanketing the floors with bleach.
Unfortunately, he said, bleach can’t penetrate rock, cement and wood.
Soon it came back
even more so, contaminating “every room” through the
circulating air.
 Even
though it’s hard to establish
a direct link between mold and breast
cancer, Brennan said
the family was
convinced that high levels of mold have
caused the sickness in their
daughter and
granddaughter. After McDonald and her
child moved away from the house, she
said, the symptoms began to go away.
Lainee has also become more energetic
and healthier.
Brennan encouraged people to
inspect their
homes for any possible
water leakage. People also should test the level of mold before
they buy a
new house, he said. In the past two weeks, he has inspected four houses
from
Southern Utah to Northern Nevada.
There have been reports that a family in
Oregon burned its mold-
contaminated house. As for his house, he said, there’s not much he
can do.
“Talk to the bank, mostly. Lose it,” he said.
“What can I do? I
don’t have any money to fix it. It won’t appraised for what it’s worth
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