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    May 26, 2008, 09:01 PM
    Mold! And pregnant
    So today we me and my boyfriend and our year and 1/2 year old where in our basement and it had flooded over the last cuple of weeks, I have been advioding going down there and cleaning but we did... there was some nasty mold grow'n on a box that had gotin wet and sat on a wet rug since the last time our basement had flooded. We have no reason to go down there other than to store boxes and such so it was a big deal but this mold looked horrible and now I feel so sick, the mold looked like lasguina it was nasty and smelt horrible could this mold effect our daughter and our unborn child... she didn't thouch it she was in the pack-n-play but I am still worried about air born virses!!
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    May 26, 2008, 11:10 PM
    Yes it's a health hazard.

    Mold Problems after a flood - Minnesota Dept. of Health
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