Thanks for replies, wasn't trying to divert attn from Edwarda. I'm an RN, and have done lots of research into this very icky toxin.
Stachybotris can only be confirmed from the source, ie: the building, it can't be confirmed through human tissue unless it's matched with the host. It's insidious, illness comes from prolonged exposure, which can be just generalized complaints, and can range into every system, respiratory to GI. Then, with a bodily system or 2 weakened, and a large amt released into the air,as in workers disturbing it, the illness becomes acute.
My neighbor who shares my walls has no GI or respiratory symptoms, but now has lymphoma. The stachybotris organism is from the aspergillus family, and it's the most potent carcinogen known to man! But funny, some people have no symptoms and are fine, even living in the same homes. So, there are many variables, which make it difficult to detect.
This could explain the fact that people staying in Edwarda's place don't get sick, cuz it takes months, and sometimes years of exposure to bring one to a point where a "burst"of it will really get you. Which makes it even harder to figure out..
Another wrench in the diagnostic works also, is the fact that it's usually about a minimum of $2000.00 to have the air tested in a home for the toxin levels. And it can't be diagnosed any other way. And since it's a level 4 toxin, in most states if a building does test positive for s.botris, it must be razed. (this is particularly annoying to landlords..lol).
Ach, didn't know Edwarda, but she seems to have the kind of spirit that might want people to figure this out, and maybe save someone else...get the word out perhaps?
Hope she knew how many people must have loved her...;-) |
