The Center for School Mold Help

Mold, dangerous chemicals such as formaldehyde, and terrible odors are reported in FEMA trailers. It took the federal government over two years to determine these were unsafe, long after the complaints started. This could have been taken care of in a few days. The people inside the toxic trailers endured a hellish existence, meanwhile, with many ill and some dead. Sound familiar? This is what it is like for those inside sick school portables and buildings, often with no effective government help, whatsoever. Apparently, the people inside toxic government buildings are not the priority. (SMH)

"It's the latest incident involving allegations that CDC's scientific findings on environmental issues are being watered down."

"The very people they're looking to for answers have been censored," [De Rosa] said. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

One of the foremost reasons that the American public and legislators remain uninformed about the hazards of damp buildings and mold is the reluctance of the United States CDC (Center for Disease Control) to take a strong stance on educating the public about the extensive, existing literature on the topic.  The CDC is charged with the protection of the public from and the monitoring of emerging public health threats. Sick Building Syndrome and mold-related illness has not been adequately addressed by the CDC, throughout the five decades since these illnesses emerged, caused by a change to unhealthy building designs and materials that began in the 1950's. As a result, it is estimated that many millions have been sickened, with little recourse for injuries or help from public health agencies, environmental health agencies, the CDC, OSHA, NIOSH, or the medical establishment. This can be directly blamed, ultimately, on the Center for Disease Control's suppression of science and avoidance - which seems to be their modus operandi.

Reading the following articles about how the CDC avoided identifying the illness caused by toxic FEMA trailers and appears to have punished a longtime, head scientist for the CDC division of toxicology and environmental medicine for raising questions about environmental conditions causing cancer provides a glimpse into how the CDC politicizes health threats. This example illustrates how the CDC does NOT protect the public, contrary to what it is charged with doing, which may be considered a betrayal of the public trust.

Under these present circumstances, it is no wonder that so many are falling ill in sick, damp buildings, with no prevention or strategies to address these problems in place.

We have listed CDC's Health Goals, following these articles, with suggestions for action you may take, to ask for an investigation related to the CDC's avoidance and suppression of the public health threat related to our sick school (and other) buildings. (SMH)

This Michigan family practice physician recovered 90% from exposure to toxic mold due to a colleague's reading of the book by physician and mold expert, Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker, called "Mold Warriors". She went on to write her own book, "Surviving Toxic Black Mold Syndrome", and now specializes in treating mold victims, at her practice in Michigan.

It takes courage to take on HISD...

By STATE REP. SYLVESTER TURNER and U.S. REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle

"Houston has some new heroes who should be honored.

Those heroes are the parents of three families who filed a federal lawsuit against the Houston Independent School District Dec. 14 on behalf of their children and many other children in HISD. All the parents named in the lawsuit have children attending Key Middle School, and many other parents throughout the district are seeking to be named plaintiffs as well" (Houston Chronicle).