People Are Getting Worried About Household Mold. Should You Be?

February 14, 2026

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According to Google Trend data, searches for “household mold” and related terms have grown in popularity over the last five years; examples include “mold toxicity symptoms,” up 170 percent, and “professional black mold removal,” up 250 percent.

You can buy a mold test kit at a store, but the Centers for Disease Control warns that a reliable sample is expensive, and there are no set standards for acceptable quantities of different types of mold in the home.

Dr. Nosanchuk acknowledged that molds can be dangerous, but also defended them. “They give us cheese, they give beer, they give L.S.D. — they do a lot of really cool things.”
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Chevlen, D. (2026, January 29). People are getting worried about household mold. Should you be? The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/realestate/household-mold-search-traffic-trend.html