I have been advised by one of my doctors to research the mold in my school and the triggering of my RD. Ugh...seems as though the US is 20 years behind Europe in this topic.

My doctors tests regularly for valley fever and Lyme disease and one other insect borne disease.

Good question.

I did find a kind of connection w/ ticks and RA. In Lyme conn.-it was noticed that there were many cases of juv. RA and an increase in adult. That is how Lyme was discovered. According to the research. Check out Paddison fr4om Australia. Unfortunately all the alternatives are selling....good luck. No one that I can trace back to had this in either fmilies.

I've been looking into that as well. Haven't found anything linking directly to black mold. I've been looking for ANY cause or treatment that would make this understandable and treatable.