Broken By His Flat?

A 38-year old tenant of a Hackney (London) flat is suing his council. He appears to have developed an incurable lung condition, after breathing in spores from the black mould on the council flat's walls (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/22/tenant-with-incurable-lung-disease-caused-by-mould-to-sue-hackney-council). The tenant now has developed heart and lung sarcoidosis. The 5-year survival rate for an individual with severe cardiac sarcoidosis, is only 60-75%. Black mould grows under cold, damp conditions. When the man phoned the council, however, they initially blamed his breathing (difficult to avoid) and/or cooking, for the condition of the flat's walls and other surfaces. There have, of course, been other recent reports, from many parts of the UK, of people getting seriously ill (or even dying), after exposure to black mould. Folk, being unable to heat their homes, due to the escalating cost of energy, is inevitably going to increase the incidences of mould-associated human illnesses. As they say, 'poverty kills'.