Whoa now! Just because they’ve got a bizarre phobia doesn’t mean that we’ve got to jump straight to sterilization. (Do we even know if the phobia is heritable?)
"My goal of late has been to develop procedures for mold contaminated collections that keep staff safe"
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/conserving-archival-collectio...
Definite interest in the reader's health, as well as archival, going on here.