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Mold Damage 'New Asbestos'
HEALTH: With no firm standards on the problem, finding the most cost-efficient treatment proves challenging.
12:04 AM PDT on Sunday, September 25, 2005
By BRUCE MEYERSON / The Associated Press
NEW YORK - The asbestos problem seemed
pretty scary until the crew we hired to remove it from our new home
pointed out the fuzzy black mold growing in the closet.
The inescapable reality was that I planned to move my family, including
a newborn and a three-year-old, into a potentially hazardous environment.
So, heart firmly planted in stomach, I set out to supplement my recent
crash course in asbestos with some postgraduate cramming on fungus and a
little-studied health scare that's spawned lawsuits, insurance claims
and an unregulated...
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