Mold - outside...

My search for help for my son get me across a lot of strange things. Only making this blog post as a good to know for my self - we sometimes talks about that mold could be cause of illness but I have not still heard a MD take this up or I don't think mainstream doctors in Sweden look after mold exposure at all.

This is about a more specific a fungal pathogen Cryptococcus gattii which hit Vancouver Island in 1999.

Cryptococcus gattii emerged on Vancouver Island in 1999 for unknown reasons, causing human and animal fatalities and illness.

https://academic.oup.com/mmy/article-abstract/56/2/129/3835467?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Cryptococcosis is caused by Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii, the latter historically reported primarily from tropical and subtropical regions, but with recent extension into the Pacific Northwest of North America.

Cryptococcosis is a major cause of global mortality (fourth, before tuberculosis), particularly with the AIDS epidemic and the lack of availability of anti-retroviral therapy in many countries.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/cryptococcosis

Rapid diagnosis and treatment as well as reporting of the disease to public health authorities will help monitor spread and better understand this emerging disease.

https://www.bcmj.org/bccdc/cryptococcus-gattii-bc-update-emerging-disease

Rapid diagnosis? This makes me wonder - is there such thing nowadays? Or have I just come across to many undiagnosed people?

Cryptococcosis is a chronic, subacute to acute pulmonary, systemic or meningitic disease, initiated by the inhalation of infectious propagules (basidiospores and/or desiccated yeast cells) from the environment.

https://mycology.adelaide.edu.au/descriptions/yeasts/cryptococcus/

A previously healthy 30-year-old male of First Nations descent was brought by his friends to the emergency department of Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, BC, with a 4-week history of behavior disturbance. Before presentation to hospital, he had experienced a diffuse headache for 2 weeks and nausea and vomiting for 1 week.

https://www.bcmj.org/articles/cryptococcus-gattii-beyond-vancouver-island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptococcus_gattii