What is Black Mold?
Stachybotrys Chartarum (Toxic Black Mold) is a greenish black fungus found worldwide.

It colonizes in most building materials including, dry wall, carpeting, wall paper, fiber board, ceiling tiles, and thermal insulation.

Individuals with chronic exposure to the toxin produced by this fungus reported cold and flu symptoms, sore throats, diarrhea, headaches, fatigue, dermatitis, intermittent local hair loss, and generalized malaise coupled by reduced brain function.
Animals injected with this toxin from this fungus have exhibited hemorrhaging within the brain.

The toxins produced by this fungus will suppress the immune system affecting the lymphoid tissue and the bone marrow.
Affects by absorption of the toxin in the human lung are known as pneumomycosis.

The mycotoxin is also reported to be a liver and kidney carcinogen.
The symptoms that arise from Stachybotrys exposure been reported to be permanent and irreversible...

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