Byssinosis Byssinosis Byssinosis, also called "brown lung disease" or "Monday fever", is an occupational lung disease caused by exposure to cotton dust in inadequately ventilated working environments. Byssinosis commonly occurs in workers who are employed in yarn and fabric manufacture industries. It is now thought that the cotton dust directly causes the disease and some believe that the causative agents are endotoxins that come from the cell walls of gram-negative bacteria that grow on the cotton. Although bacterial endotoxin is a likely cause, the absence of similar symptoms in workers in other industries exposed to endotoxins makes this uncertain. Of the
Lewy body dementia with Parkinson's disease, and according to his widow he experienced depression, anxiety, and increasing paranoia. Upon autopsy his widow said he was found to have diffuse DLB. Ian G. McKeith, a dementia researcher and professor of old age psychiatry, commented that DLB was still too little known, and that Williams' symptoms were explained by DLB. The LBDA clarified the distinction between the term used in the autopsy report, "diffuse Lewy body dementia"—which is more commonly called "diffuse Lewy body disease" and refers to the underlying disease process—and the umbrella term, "Lewy body dementia," which encompasses both PDD and DLB. According