Compelling Anecdotal Evidence Linking Stachybotrys and Pulmonary Hemosiderosis

photo-7 The possible linkage between exposure to airborne concentrations of Stachybotrys mold spores and bleeding of the lungs (i.e., pulmonary hemosiderosis) is controversial. In the United States, this association between contaminant and symptoms was first postulated by doctors Dorr Dearborn and Ruth Etziel in relation to a number of infant deaths and near deaths in 1994. Since this study of health problems involved both the clinical pediatrician (Dearborn) and an investigator from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Etziel), the CDC accepted their findings of Stachybotrys as the probable cause of the infant symptoms.

However, a later …