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This should prbly be a disambiguation page instead
Also its a little short and we should decide on a spelling (not that i can talk!) --Davelane 23:09, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I agree this should be something like an annotated disambiguation page, the problem being that there are thousands of species of mold, so it's almost impossible to generalize about them (imagine saying "breathing a gas confers health benefits"). The definition of mold on this page includes almost all fungi that aren't yeasts, so that could use a tweak too. Where to begin!? ----
Toxic Mold should certainly be merged here, and some of its bits should go to Indoor Air Quality or Growth In Buildings. The Toxic Mold page confounds aerosols/volatile organics with ingested mycotoxins. ----
I deleted "The war on mold in kickapoo is killing children!!!" I don't understand this at all -- if this is relevent can it be explained better --Davelane 01:05, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
It seems "The war on mold in kickapoo is killing children!!!" relates to a mold infection at Kickapoo High School according to this article: http://mold-help.org/content/view/245/ This is, however, completely rubbish to put in an encyclopedia. Link to the toxicity of fungae is already included.
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[edit] Penicillin
We need to discuss penecillin here, I think, at least breifly. Or at least link it. Lotusduck 19:20, 13 November 2005 (UTC)lotusduck
- Added a sentence. I get a kick out of those mold photos. FireWorks 00:11, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
penecilin is the one that is good, right??
Penicillin is a medicine that is useful. Not totally sure what it's used for, but it's good. --Jeremy 19:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
- Uhh, it's an antibiotic. It kills bacteria.
[edit] Questions
° So, I've always been curious: I know mold probably just doesn't spontaniously come into existence, so how does it suddenly appear and grow, especially in a closed environment like a refrigerator? Are there microscopic spores (fairly ubiquitously) in the air which attach to damp surfaces and begin to grow, or something like that? I was expecting a little background (or at least a link to something) about a "life cycle", but it was only hinted at / implied. I hope someone who knows could put a fuller description.
In reply to above. Yes you are correct, there are masses of fungal spores in the air and you will inhale them frequently.
° I think that there should be more information of the different types of mold, organizing them by appearance (photos, descriptions of colour, what it usually grows on, etc.) and discussing their possible effects on people who are exposed to it. For example something like: "Purple mold which grows on rice can cause difficulty breathing, here is a picture of what it looks like." Surely there is someone out there who knows all about mold ...?
[edit] Contradiction?
I'm a little bit confused by this statement in the opening section of the article:
- "The numerous spores released by mold do not themselves cause significant harm in humans..."
because it seems to contradict the "Mold growth in buildings" section when it states:
- "Some molds are particularly serious in this respect, because their spores are important causes of allergies (they are allergens); also, the spores of some fungi like Stachybotrys release potent toxins into the lungs when inhaled; Stachybotrys spores can cause very severe symptoms and lung lesions in children."
--HunterZ 21:43, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Well I guess this applies to certain species of mold. AllStarZ 03:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC) hi
Does mold cause brain damage? I get mixed results when I search at Google.
[edit] Killing mold
People are always calling into Car Talk and asking what they can do to remove the moldy smell. They always say that if there's mold (the type that will grow on your auto carpets anyway), you can only really kill it with two things, sunlight (intense and long term) and bleach. While the Toxic mold article mentions some ways of generally killing mold, some of the remedies listed only shrink the colony (like ventilation) and won't actually kill it. So I came to this article to see if what those two lunkheads was true (since there's usually a lot of mold in their heads). O how I'd like a mycologist to come here and add some good stuff to this article! What definitely kills mold?? 82.93.133.130 06:16, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] History of mold.
i think that the history of mold should be in this topic.everyone knows what it is and what it does,but no one knows how it came to be. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.82.157.80 (talk) 01:12, 1 February 2007 (UTC).
