This is link to a pdf document of a research report published by Kansas State University discusses the cause and other aspects of mycotoxins in grains. The author is Tim Herrman. The publication date was May 2002. right off he sates that "The word mycotoxin was derived from mycotoxicosis, which was a term first used in 1955 to describe diseases of animals caused by fungal toxins." It's been 60 years now and the medical community is not yet tuned in.