Cheese Worker's Lung

photo-7icIendic have heard it reported secondhand at various mold conferences that all the talk about molds compromising human health can't possibly be true because "look at all those individuals who work in the cheese industry. They are around mold all the time and they never get sick from it." Of course, just the opposite is true and the disease "cheese worker's lung" (a.k.a. cheese washer's lung) is well known in the industry. In November 2001, I wrote an article entitled "An introduction to mold exposure," which was published in the …