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Article: Anxiety spreads about the mold lurking in schools and homes.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- January 29, 2004
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Byline: Dawn Fallik
PHILADELPHIA _ Call it the creeping crud, the green horror, the spores from hell. Call it mold. Mold has been around for billions of years, living off damp surfaces, wafting its spores aloft and breaking down organic material.
Such a simple thing, causing such an uproar.
Mold has been especially prevalent in the Northeast recently because of a wet spring, summer and fall. Nationally, mold has cost millions of dollars in clean-up efforts and widespread anxiety over health concerns. A 2003 report from a Chicago law firm found that mold-related lawsuits increased 300 percent since 1999.
Mold has even invaded Congress: ...