College students fear mold in dorms led to Adenovirus death of University of Maryland freshman

Fox News ^ | 11/25/2018 | Liam Quinn

[antidemoncrat]

"D.C. and Maryland v. Trump is a lawsuit filed on June 12, 2017 in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs, the U.S. state of Maryland and the District of Columbia, allege that the defendant, President Donald Trump, has violated the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution by accepting gifts from foreign governments."

Seems to me they should pay more attention to keeping their student safe.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bleach is almost as cheap as water.

[DBrow]

Mold and virus are not even remotely similar. It may be a contributor, as the article says, but it looks to me like people are searching for the deepest pockets.

[Calvin Locke]

So, buy a new pillow, and bed linens...shoes, etc.

Start using anti-fungal foot sprays, and use borax in the wash as well as in the water/cleaning solutions to do the floors and other household cleanings. Boron atoms inhibit the growth of a number of types of spores.

[mewzilla]

https://www.cdc.gov/adenovirus/about/transmission.html

Mold?

Snort.

[dp0622]

lol

Where’s the Adenovirus come from???

Adeno. I’m trying to find out.

Sorry...

[Fresh Wind]

Is this about mold or Trump?

[lee martell]

That Dorm should consider putting Merry Maids on a longterm contract. This only after an Uber-Field Day of OCD level cleaning. Not fun, pleasant or inexpenisve either, but if you are requiring students to live on campus, the school has the responsibility to present a relatively clean place to stay.
Maybe offer a discount on the tuition if students bring their own sponge mops and dollar store windex.

[HangnJudge]

Mold is everywhere
The usual way it effects humans is through a
weakened immune system or poor clearance of secretions

Viruses are a completely different Kingdom

[PGR88]

Bleach is almost as cheap as water.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Most dorm rooms are 15X15 cement boxes with one wooden closet. A solution of bleach, a sponge and 10 minutes of elbow grease would solve the problem

but our education-industrial complex would rather have an army of unionized state employees take "special action" at a cost of $several million.

[surroundedbyblue]

I see the colleges are really educating them well. Mold and viruses are two different species and unrelated.

[Buttons12]

I buy houses rather frequently. I don’t go in without bleach and cleaning strength vinegar and baking soda. (Not to be used all at the same time, due to interactions.) Everything from top to bottom gets treated before anyone moves in.
The worst part of hotel and dorm living is fabric. Especially carpeting. My rule is, carpeting is always toxically filthy and the place cannot be truly clean if the carpeting remains.
The dorm (most any dorm) is probably as harmful to lungs as the curriculum is to brains.

[pepsionice]

I would say this....having seen serious mold in a Pentagon basement work area that I was responsible for...there is marginal mold and ‘bad’ mold. Until you have it tested and the expert says the type, I wouldn’t say much.

If you have some idiots come and do a renovation project or build a dorm with leaks (bad ones), then you are inviting a continuous mold issue and it’ll have to be something you attend to for months or years.

Years ago, I lived in a cheaply built military barracks and we were going to paint the room (moving the lockers out of the way), and here was this really serious black mold situation. We used bleach and a sponge, but I’m sure within six months it came back and it was a badly constructed building.

[Skywise]

And yet another perfect demonstration of socialism.

[Baynative]

[jmacusa]

There are more germs and bacteria in these kids dirty laundry then anything on their walls. Hell for that matter on the inside of their mouth. If you have ever worked in the health care field, as I do here in NJ, you're required, by law, to attend seminars and ‘’in house’’ training sessions were you're told everything under the sun about disease, AIDS, elder care, elder abuse, spotting sexual abuse/ signs of domestic violence , etc. and it doesn't matter if you're a doctor or the guy with the floor buffer(that's me, yup, I'm that guy) you have to learn this. And one thing you learn is that bacteria and viruses are living organisms. Crafty, aggressive little buggers that mean to survive any way possible . And the explosion over the last twenty years of antibacterial soaps and cleaners has toughened these little devils up. They've mutated to overcome, adapt and survive the stuff.

[Mollypitcher1]

Bleach is almost as cheap as water.
.......................................
My first thought also. Why in the name of heaven didn’t the girls scrub the offending areas rather than blame the university? Seems helpless little snowflakes cannot use their brains for anything but complaining about their “feelings.”

[jmacusa]

No. They need a ‘RoboMom’’ to shout “I want you should clean up this FILTHY room! Right now, do you here me young man!?! Do you think all I have to do all day is clean up after you?’’ Now get moving and tell those friends of yours you’re not going ANYWHERE until you do!’’ “Honestly, it’s not the work it’s the worry. Land Sakes, sometimes I wonder....

[reed13k]

This reminds me. The trees in my backyard have all started sprouting a whitish/light green lichen. Kills them pretty quick no matter the tree type. Anyone have recommendations on what to use without killing the wife’s hostas/flowers etc?

[VanShuyten]

These are two completely unrelated events. The mold is from condensation from a crappy HVAC system, and is a problem at many campuses in the DC area. Poor design and maintenance by the universities is to blame. From the photos I’ve seen on TV, it’s a serious problem.

The young woman who died from the adenovirus infection was being treated with immunosuppressant drugs for Crohn’s disease. That’s the risk that many who take such drugs for many autoimmune diseases, such as Crohn’s and rheumatoid arthritis take. Those people are at much higher risk from dying of infections that the rest of us would just fight off.