Is Your Apartment Killing You?

Introduction

Introduction

Timeline

Discovery

From Bad, to Worse

Why Should I Be worried?

Can Mold Cause Cancer?

Summary

FAQ

Appendices

Imagine this: You have just moved into your new apartment. You are perfectly healthy and in the best shape of your life. Almost immediately, you realize something is wrong with your apartment. The main sewer backs up into your apartment, flooding your floors and carpet with raw sewage. Your apartment complex offers quick fix solutions that neatly cover up the problem - but don't correct it. You don't realize it, but sewage has contaminated the entire ground floor, including the air ducts. Mold festers unseen throughout your apartment releasing millions of spores into the air. You begin to have problems with your health. The problems are initially mild and seem to come and go randomly, but they never completely go away. Your problems eventually become more and more frequent and chronic, but your doctors can't figure out what is wrong. Meanwhile, your health continues to deteriorate...
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