A friend of a friend just died from black mold😕

Yikes!

I’m sure I’ve been exposed many times throughout my life.
People weren’t really concerned about mold.
I remember on stormy nights (Pacific west coast) my mom putting towels on the windowsills as the water would come in.
They didn’t make windows like they do now.

sorry to hear that

aspergillus and a few other species can cause outright infections of the lungs and a type of pneumonia and death as a result - normally in persons with immune deficiencies though - or occasionally people who were thought to have normal immune status - but had huge doses / exposure

eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/aspergillosis

this is different than a mold toxin type illness - where minute amounts of the toxins upset the immune system and tend to cause chronic disease - without - as far as we know - direct tissue infection

Sorry to hear that but glad you posted this as a warning. I just wanted to make a few comments in response to what’s been said so far.

As to only a few variants of mold being deadly, I am not sure of that. The science regarding effects of indoor mold on human health is severely lacking. That comment gives the idea that there had to be a particular species of mold present to harm someone just doesn’t fit that scenario. An abandoned house with a caved in roof would have easily hosted dozens to hundreds of species of mold and likely in very large colonies.

While many toxic molds can cause skin reactions if touched, it is the inhalation of spores and mycotoxins that would have killed him, likely from pneumonia.

If he was moving something around or even walking around inside, then he stirred up the air, causing the spores and mycotoxins to stir up in the air. By touching and moving things around, he likely disturbed living mold organisms, causing them to release a plethora of spores and toxins into the air.

Spores are not visible to the naked eye, and mycotoxins are smaller than spores and are not captured by HEPA air filtration devices.

WBF- I’m somewhat guessing here but like a lot of things , what someone is susceptible to probably somewhat depends on ones personal genetics.

Per standard medicine, there’s not very many strands of mold that are deadly. If standard medicine recognizes that some of them are deadly, that is pretty much guaranteed you’re gonna drop like a rock since they downplay so manny things.

I have no doubt that there are many other variants that will make you ill for probably a long time but might not actually kill you. That’s why doctors like Schumacher exist because like you and others it can cause major health problems (but you’re still living).

I was in the vicinity of many types of mold in my youth, and luckily it didn’t make me sick. I was probably lucky. It’s kinda like Covid or even Lyme,...some people die from it, Some get sick (for a long time), and some it does nothing to.

As an avid outdoors person my whole life I had hundreds of ticks on me when I was young. Looking back, it just surprises me how many people I knew that had ticks but never got sick from them, ...why is that? Probably genetics. In my state it’s been proven that 50% of the ticks have actual Lyme disease and they are not even counting the other confections.

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