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Category: Mold Remediation | Tags: damp flood spores clean-up fungus
The floodwaters receded, but now flood victims are fighting a darker, fuzzier enemy.

Tracks of greenish-black mold are streaking across walls and spreading into the fabric of clothes and furniture of homes damaged by Tropical Storm Irene. That is the visible part.

The real trouble hides behind walls, under carpets and even in the air where spores float around looking for new places to propagate.

"Each single spore can start a colony," said Vishnu Chaturvedi, director of the mycology laboratory at the Wadsworth Center in Albany. The state-run lab is dedicated to testing and studying fungus.

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