In a breakthrough medical analysis, Marinkovich outlined the symptoms that hypersensitive individuals experience when exposed to mold. In the beginning there are feelings of nasopharyngeal – sore throats, hoarseness, stuffy nose, transient hearing loss – or pulmonary – coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath. As the exposure continues, patients suffer headaches, fatigues, rashes, vertigo, muscle and joint pain, fever, and sinus or ear infections.