Subject: Work related health problems
One of the sources of professional health problems among librarians may be mycosises of lungs and skin. Certain fungi, molds and their spores are spread very wide in library collections, and all of them are potentially dangerous for men. American standards list many of these fungi as dangerous. I suggest a paper on this subject (in Russian): Nyuksha Yu.P. Fungal dishes of books and men. In: Teoriya i praktika sohraneniya knig v bibliotekah. Leningrad, 1975. Issue #7, pages 7-43. Yu. P. Nyuksha Department of Conservation Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russia 199034, St.-Petersburg Birjevaya liniya, 1. *** Conservation DistList Instance 7:66 Distributed: Wednesday, March 23, 1994 Message Id: cdl-7-66-003 ***Received on Tuesday, 15 March, 1994