Several employees at the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial V.A. Medical Center in Loma Linda, CA, have filed a federal whistleblower complaint against hospital officials alleging that they are covering up a Legionella bacteria outbreak, the Orange County Register (OCR) recently reported. The complaint says that officials put patients, hospital visitors, and staff at risk for
The state of Michigan and Governor Rick Snyder have ended the free bottled water distribution program to Flint residents, according to news reports. The 2-year-old program began in January 2016 as part of a $450 million state and federal aid package that was put in place after lead-tainted water plagued the city during the Flint
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is investigating a cluster of Legionnaires’ disease illnesses at Co-Op City in the Bronx, including the death of an elderly resident.
Co-Op City, located in the Baychester section of the borough, is the largest cooperative housing development in the world. It has 15,372 apartments
The Florida Department of Health in Lake County has confirmed two Legionnaires’ disease cases at a 55-plus community in Lady Lake, FL, according to Villages-News.com.
Laboratory testing determined that the hot tub at the Water Oak Country
An Orlando, FL, resident has filed suit against a fitness club after being sickened with Legionnaires’ disease last May, according to the Florida Record (https://flarecord.com), an online publication owned by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform.
The complaint (Orange County Circuit Court case #18CA003106) was filed by Reinaldo Mariaca of Orlando against Fitness International,
A preliminary report by the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs (IDVA) recommends replacing the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy (IVHQ) with a state-of-the-art facility and other improvements, all of which would cost the state as much as $278 million.
The report concludes that the best options for eradicating Legionella bacteria from the facility would include
Scientists at the Technical University of Munich in Germany said they have developed a measuring chip that will identify the existence of Legionella within 34 minutes, according to recently published research in the journal “Biosensors and Bioelectronics.”
Legionella is the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease, which can be identified with a urinalysis. Trying to
A federal judge in New Orleans awarded a summer intern $310,000 in his lawsuit over a near-deadly bout of Legionnaires’ disease contracted onboard a ship, according to the Bangor (MA) Daily News.
Bryan Higgins, 27, of Concord, NH, took ill in August 2013 while working aboard an offshore vessel for LaBorde Marine Management LLC of
A senior living community in Dallas is taking action to prevent a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak after a resident was sickened, the Dallas Morning News reported.
Highland Springs in Far North Dallas is treating the water in two of its buildings after being notified of a positive Legionnaires’ disease test by the Collin County Health Care
Governor Bruce Rauner’s administration recently shifted course and stated that it will rebuild residence halls at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy (IVHQ), which housed victims of a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in which 13 people died among dozens sickened since 2015.
The plan was announced less than two months after the Republican governor said the