HEALTHY HOUSE

• The New England Asthma Regional Council has a useful document entitled "Healthy and Affordable Housing: Practical Recommendations for Building, Renovating, and Maintaining Housing" (pdf) to help homeowners reduce the impact of home pollutants such as moisture on people with asthma.
• Damp Indoor Spaces and Health (2004) by the Institute of Medicine examines the relationship between damp or moldy indoor environments and adverse health outcomes, discusses how and where buildings get wet, how dampness influences microbial growth and chemical emissions, the ways to prevent and remediate dampness, and the elements of a public health response to the issues.
• SOEH report, "Mold-Related Health Effects: Clinical, Remediation Worker Protection, and Biomedical Research Issue".
• Urban Mold & Moisture Control Interventions (2005)
• "In 1994, a dark fungus gained notoriety as an apparent cause of a frightening condition striking a number of Cleveland infants, some of whom died." A WebMD article explores the issue of toxic mold.