Fairly healthy people with a bit of back pain are ending up
dead as black mold was injected directly into their spines. Sounds like a great
terrorist or sci fi plot, yet to the horror of many it is true. The tainted
black mold was the courtesy of the careless manufacture of steroid shots sold
to 14,000 patients over many states. Doctors are in unchartered water as this
fungal meningitis is not so easy to detect and is not very common. This is a
toxic black mold meningitis; a truly different beast than what docs are used to
treating.
The source of the
problem is New England Compounding Center. The suspected causes of the mold
tainted injections are: a leaking boiler, dirty floor mats, a pool of water
near a “sterile” room where the medicines were manufactured, and the worst
being black fungal (mold) growths in steroid vials. Water intrusion was not
immediately repaired and necessary cleaning was also neglected.
There was a basic ignorance to understand what
is necessary to prevent mold and kill mold. The moisture provided the perfect
medium for mold growth. Mold needs warm,
dark and damp conditions which this room obviously met. Since mold spores can
travel, the sitting vials awaiting medicines were silently lined with invisible
mold spores. NECC was in a hurry for some reason and failed
to wait for the results of sterility checks which would have identified the
mold’s presence. Sterility checks should
have occurred before the manufacturing of the steroid shots.
This fungus
appears as a brown/black “armor” that can sneak past the defense system. The
main culprit is: Exserohilum rostrum,
usually found in dirt and grasses. Most
infections from this fungus are skin infections found in immune compromised
individuals according to Dr. David Perlin, (University of Medicine & Dentistry of New
Jersey). The problem is that human cells and fungal
cells are very similar making it hard to target without massive side
effects. The toxic mold then grows
slowly burrowing its way from the spinal cord into the spinal fluid. It then has a direct path to the brain.
The research with
mold proves that mold toxins are able to go through the blood brain barrier and
attack the brain - a serious problem.
One death occurred in Maryland where mold pierced blood vessels in her
brain leading to severe brain damage and death.
Usually serious infections attack people with compromised immune systems
like AIDS patients. This rare fungal meningitis is attacking otherwise healthy people
which simply is a frightening proposition.
The fact that the
mold grows slowly is confirmed by the average of 42 days before patients show
symptoms of a black injection according to the CDC. In contrast, bacterial and viral meningitis
attack quickly, with obvious symptoms. Treatment for these identified patients
includes using the drug Voriconazole.
Patients require being monitored as differences in metabolism can make
blood levels surge causing confusion, nausea, hallucinations and sometimes
liver damage warns Dr. Carol Kauffman, professor of infectious disease at University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
As of October 25tt,
24 of the 323 Americans with “black mold’ meningitis have died. In 2002 a different fungal meningitis occurred
152 days after the shot.
We should be grateful
that there are such strict rules for sterility of the areas of manufacturing of
drugs. Mold in mass belongs nowhere. There are health implications within a moldy
building. For the unlucky people with
faulty genes, 25% of the population according to Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker, mold toxins
pass through the bodies’ immune system with no antibodies produced to destroy
them. Mold toxins are then free to go
anywhere, including the brain, slipping through the blood brain barrier and exacerbating
all sorts of health conditions. Taking care to make sure to prevent mold and
kill mold well keep healthy patients from a black mold tainted steroid shot and
possible death. http://www.stopmoldcold.com/behealthy
Sources: CBS/AP
October 25, 2012
USA Today.com/news/10/12/2012/Meningitis
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