Menace in the Walls is a children's fiction based on a true and controversial story that took place in the mid-1990s in Cleveland, OH. During an outbreak of pulmonary hemorrhage resulting in deaths of several young infants, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDe, led by Dr. Dorr G. Dearborn of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, investigated the first 10 cases and found an association between the deaths and water-damaged homes containing the toxic mold, Stachybotrys. Since 1993, Dearborn cites ...
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Menace in the Walls is a children's fiction based on a true and controversial story that took place in the mid-1990s in Cleveland, OH. During an outbreak of pulmonary hemorrhage resulting in deaths of several young infants, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDe, led by Dr. Dorr G. Dearborn of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, investigated the first 10 cases and found an association between the deaths and water-damaged homes containing the toxic mold, Stachybotrys. Since 1993, Dearborn cites 47 cases of unexplained lung hemorrhages in infants in northeastern Ohio. Sixteen of those infants have died. According to Dr. Dearborn, ninety percent have come from water-damaged homes containing toxigenic fungi and environmental tobacco smoke. It appears that smoking triggered the hemorrhages, but the molds caused the underlying damage. Dr. Dearborn read "Menace in the Walls" and advised N. L. Eskeland on the medical aspect of the disease.
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