I guess we shouldn't be surprised by the fact that our pillows are miniature zoos containing millions of fungal spores, with some species able to cause diseases and even death. Researchers at the University of Manchester have studied the fungal contamination of our pillows for the first time in seventy years and discovered that these pillows were hot beds of fungal spores. After dissecting both feather and synthetic pillows in regular use between several months and 20 years, they've "identified several thousand spores of fungus per gram of used pillow -- more than a million spores per pillow." Read more...
Sources: University of Manchester news release, October 14, 2005; Jeff Minerd, MedPage Today, October 14, 2005; Daniel DeNoon, WebMD Medical News, October 14, 2005; and various web sites
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