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In 1994, in Cleveland, an outbreak of pulmonary bleeding in infants occurred. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention investigated, and, according to CDC's Stephen Redd, "an association was identified between increasing concentrations of spores of [S. chartarum] in case households compared to control households. That was the initial finding." CDC and an outside panel of experts later reviewed the initial findings and stated in a report published in March 2000 that the study had a number of flaws so that the originally reported association shouldn't be considered proven. "It was sort of like we were back where we started before that investigation was done," Redd says |
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