WaPo: Lyme and Airborne Fungi; Next, a legal battle that is a consequence of OspA LIES...
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Subject: WaPo: Lyme and Airborne Fungi; Next, a legal battle that is a
consequence of OspA LIES...
Date: Feb 1, 2009 6:45 AM
In addition to screwing up HIV, ALS, MS, Lupus,
Cancer, and Cystic Fibrosis research for over
10 years, now we see yet another consequence of
the denial of what OspA/HIV's gp120 and gp41 - fungal
antigens - is and does (Washington Post article below).
http://www.actionlyme.org/PAM3CYS_IMMUNE_SUPPRESSION.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=pam3cys%5BAll+Fields%5D
http://www.actionlyme.org/PAM3CYS_LYME_HIV.htm
This is directly and deliberately Yale's fault, since
they were the ones who lied with "Allen Steere in Europe"
http://www.actionlyme.org/STEERE_IN_EUROPE.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/CRYMEDISEASE_CHP3_B.htm
to set up the RICO with Corixa, L2 Diagnostics, and Imugen
for their monopoly on national blood:
http://www.actionlyme.org/LYME_CORRUPTICUT.htm
Corixa did the majority of this RICO's advertising that
they were
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/search?hl=en&group=sci.med.diseases.lyme&q=corixa+partners+imugen&qt_g=Search+this+group
in partnership with L2 Diagnostics (Yale/Schoen) and
Imugen (Steere and Molloy). Corixa was purchased by
SmithKline (*after being awarded a biodefense contract):
http://www.actionlyme.org/STEALTH_DISABLERS.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/EMBASSIES_CORIXA_TLR_13_JULY_06.htm
SmithKline sold their bogus Lyme testing (with strain
BN31- which has no OspC or band 23 in it), to Quest.
Schoen demonstrates his *intent* to not report adverse
events (that were non-arthritis) to LYMErix:
http://www.actionlyme.org/YOUTUBEVIDEOS.htm
The CDC knew about and approved of the entire scam.
Here they are lying to the CT Attorney General in his
Jan 2004 Public Hearing:
http://www.actionlyme.org/LymeFraudShort.htm
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/31/AR2009013100796_pf.html
Sick House, Suffering Family
Mold Leads to Major Medical Problems, Legal Battle in Loudoun
By Jonathan Mummolo
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 1, 2009; C01
The migraines began three months after Wendy Meng moved into her new
Loudoun County house. They lasted for hours, forcing her to sleep in
her closet because she was so sensitive to light. Then her heart rate
started spiking.
Before long, her 8-year-old daughter, Emma, started having headaches,
feeling dizzy and suffering nosebleeds. Wendy's husband, Paul, a
runner on the track team in college, was short of breath after
climbing the stairs. A raft of tests by doctors came back negative.
The Mengs were chronically ill, and they had no idea why.
But over the next year, they noticed a pattern: The more they were out
of the house, the better they felt. After doing some detective work,
they discovered that the source of their pain was the place they
called home.
Shoddy construction and unmended leaks had let moisture in, allowing
toxin-producing mold to grow and spread through the three-story house,
the Mengs said. A Loudoun jury recently awarded the family $4.75
million, among the largest awards in a mold case in Virginia.
Jurors said the home's builder, the Drees Co., was negligent and
violated the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. They said the company
was responsible for the couple's health problems but not those of
Emma, their youngest daughter.
In court, the company denied that the way it assembled the house led
to the mold, said it was not responsible for cleaning it up and did
not think that the mold made the Mengs sick.
Barbara Drees Jones, vice president of marketing for Kentucky-based
Drees, declined to comment on the case because attorneys for Drees are
going back to court Friday to ask the judge to set aside the verdict.
Kurt C. Rommel, an attorney for Drees, said it would be inappropriate
to comment until the judge enters a decision on the jury verdict.
Wendy Meng said their new home sat on the premier lot in the
neighborhood, on half an acre, with a pretty pond behind it. She and
her husband loved the wrought iron staircase, Brazilian cherry
flooring, high ceilings and three fireplaces.
"We were so excited. This was my dream house," she said. "I used to
come down in the morning and pinch myself. It was so beautiful."
Before moving into their new 5,900-square-foot house in the Tall Cedar
Estates subdivision in November 2005, the Mengs said, they asked the
Drees company to fix a few problems, including leaky windows in the
basement.
Drees told the Mengs that the windows had been fixed, but puddles in
the basement persisted after the family moved into its $900,000 home
in the Chantilly area of Loudoun, the Mengs said. They later learned
that Drees had not allowed the house's frame to dry before installing
drywall, creating the perfect conditions for mold to thrive all over
the house, the Mengs said.
In February 2006, the migraines began. "We were very scared. I was in
bed 95 percent of the time," said Wendy Meng, 37. "All we ever wanted
was to be able to have a home."
On March 30, 2006, she went to see her family doctor in Herndon, who
noticed one of her pupils was dilated. The doctor called an ambulance,
and she was rushed to a hospital and given a CAT scan, she said. She
was given heavy painkillers, referred to a neurologist and released,
she said.
She was readmitted to the hospital for four days in April with a
racing pulse and high blood pressure. She was referred to a
cardiologist, and another battery of tests was inconclusive, she said.
The pattern of tests, referrals and failed treatments would continue
over the next year, Wendy Meng said. She was hospitalized seven times
and experienced memory loss, heart palpitations and difficulty
breathing, all without knowing why, she said. Meanwhile, the rest of
her family was getting sick, too. Emma, now 11, had her nose
cauterized with acid three times to prevent the bleeding, Wendy Meng
said. Paul Meng, 48, and daughter Kaleigh, 12, developed asthma.
During trips to the emergency room, Wendy noticed that her pain would
often subside. Just a few hours out of the house was often all it
took, she said.
"My husband could see it on my face," she said. "He could physically
see the pain leave."
In January 2007, the company had the basement windows repaired, and
Paul Meng bought a home testing kit for mold and radon, on a hunch
that air quality might be a factor, the Mengs said.
He sent the samples to a lab, which reported finding "unusual mold
conditions." The couple then hired professionals to repeat the tests,
with the same results. Drees was informed, and in February 2007, the
company hired a contractor to do an inspection. The inspection turned
up mold, and the contractor made recommendations for removing it.
The next month, the Mengs received a letter from Drees saying the
company was not responsible for carrying out the recommendations,
according to court papers filed by the Mengs. A Drees executive told
Paul Meng that the illness was "all in your wife's head," Paul Meng
said.
In April, Wendy Meng took a four-day trip to Williamsburg. Her
headaches stopped completely, she said, and "the pain just lifted."
When she returned home, the migraines quickly returned and the next
weekend she was hospitalized again.
They had no choice but to move, the Mengs said.
Taking only their beds, a couch, a table, some teddy bears and clothes
that had been dry cleaned, the family moved to a South Riding
townhouse that April. The sickness continued, but to a lesser degree,
they said. The mold had contaminated their possessions and had
followed them to their new home, they later learned. They filed a
lawsuit against Drees in Loudoun County Circuit Court that August.
"We kept on hoping that Drees was going to do the right thing," Wendy
Meng said. "All we asked them to do was put us up somewhere while they
got the house completely cleaned . . . and they wouldn't do it."
Paul Meng, who co-owns a company that automates systems in commercial
buildings, said he never wanted it to go to court. "Court is the last
resort. . . . We still trusted them. We had expected them to come
through for us."
Last March, the Mengs went to see Ritchie Shoemaker, a doctor on
Maryland's Eastern Shore who specializes in illnesses caused by water-
damaged buildings. He said mold and other microbes in the house had
produced toxins that made the Mengs sick.
Shoemaker said their possessions had been contaminated, too, and the
family threw away almost everything, including family photos,
baptismal gowns and toys. "He said we had to get rid of everything we
had," Wendy Meng said. "When we moved [again] . . . we didn't even
bring a sock."
The Mengs moved to Aldie in March last year. In September, they went
to a bio-detox center in South Carolina for about a month to remove
toxins that had built up in their bodies. The children missed about a
month of school, and "that's been challenging," Paul Meng said.
Among other treatments, the Mengs sat in 150-degree saunas for three
hours a day.
"I felt like I got my life back," Wendy Meng said, though she and
other family members still have problems. Paul and Kaleigh have
asthma. Wendy and Kaleigh are on a daily regimen of oxygen treatments,
and Wendy has painful muscle spasms in her neck and shoulders from
time to time.
Chin S. Yang, a mycologist who testified as an expert witness in the
trial, said that mold grows in houses when excessive moisture is
present and that the problem became more common after drywall largely
replaced plaster in home construction. He said the paper in drywall
contains sugar polymers that can serve as food for organisms.
"What you have is [Drees] not using common sense," said David H. Wise,
the Mengs' attorney. "They didn't supervise their
subcontractors. . . . They didn't care when water intruded into the
house during construction."
The Mengs still own the Chantilly house, but they said it would cost
about $400,000 to remove the mold and make necessary repairs. They're
not sure what to do with it, they said, and are reluctant to sell it
for fear it would cause another family health problems.
The Mengs said problems with the house have cost them hundreds of
thousands of dollars in medical expenses, legal fees, discarded
furniture and other expenses. But they can be replaced.
"If you don't have your health," Wendy Meng said, "it doesn't matter
what you have."
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> Subject: WaPo: Lyme and Airborne Fungi; Next, a legal battle that is a
> consequence of OspA LIES...
>
> Date: Feb 1, 2009 6:45 AM
>
> In addition to screwing up HIV, ALS, MS, Lupus,
> Cancer, and Cystic Fibrosis research for over
> 10 years, now we see yet another consequence of
> the denial of what OspA/HIV's gp120 and gp41 - fungal
>
> http://www.actionlyme.org/PAM3CYS_LYME_HIV.htm
>
> This is directly and deliberately Yale's fault, since
> to set up the RICO with Corixa, L2 Diagnostics, and Imugen
> for their monopoly on national blood:http://www.actionlyme.org/LYME_CORRUPTICUT.htm
>
> Corixa did the majority of this RICO's advertising that
> in partnership with L2 Diagnostics (Yale/Schoen) and
> Imugen (Steere and Molloy). �Corixa was purchased by
> SmithKline sold their bogus Lyme testing (with strain
> BN31- which has no OspC or band 23 in it), to Quest.
>
> Schoen demonstrates his *intent* to not report adverse
> events (that were non-arthritis) to LYMErix:http://www.actionlyme.org/YOUTUBEVIDEOS.htm
>
> The CDC knew about and approved of the entire scam.
> Here they are lying to the CT Attorney General in his
> Jan 2004 Public Hearing:http://www.actionlyme.org/LymeFraudShort.htm
>
> KMDicksonhttp://www.actionlyme.org
>
> "If you don't have your health," Wendy Meng said, "it doesn't matter
> what you have."
they were the ones who lied with "Allen Steere in Europe"
http://www.actionlyme.org/STEERE_IN_EUROPE.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/CRYMEDISEASE_CHP3_B.htm
to set up the RICO with Corixa, L2 Diagnostics, and Imugen
for their monopoly on national blood:
http://www.actionlyme.org/LYME_CORRUPTICUT.htm
It all boils down to one thing - stupid Yale? dumb like a fox ---It
all boils down to one thing. The less people diagnosed the less the
insurance cos. have to pay out. I wonder now what snake hole Sigal is
hiding in now.......Briston Meyers snake hole......
Mort Zuckerman
>
> >http://www.actionlyme.org/PAM3CYS_LYME_HIV.htm
>
> > This is directly and deliberately Yale's fault, since
> > to set up the RICO with Corixa, L2 Diagnostics, and Imugen
> > for their monopoly on national blood:http://www.actionlyme.org/LYME_CORRUPTICUT.htm
>
> > Corixa did the majority of this RICO's advertising that
> > they werehttp://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/search?hl=en&gro...
> > in partnership with L2 Diagnostics (Yale/Schoen) and
> > Imugen (Steere and Molloy). Corixa was purchased by
> to set up the RICO with Corixa, L2 Diagnostics, and Imugen
> for their monopoly on national blood:http://www.actionlyme.org/LYME_CORRUPTICUT.htm
> It all boils down to one thing - stupid Yale? dumb like a fox ---It
> all boils down to one thing. The less people diagnosed the less the
> insurance cos. have to pay out. I wonder now what snake hole Sigal is
> hiding in now.......Briston Meyers snake hole......
There's no way out.
Paul Duray is on the new IDSA panel.
But we'll have to insist it be prosecuted as crime.
Kathleen
http://www.actionlyme.org