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Water samples tested positive for the Legionella bacteria at the Good Samaritan Society – Prophets Riverview in Prophetstown, IL, after more than half of the nursing home’s residents took ill, including nine who died from a mysterious respiratory illness.
Legionella is the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease, but none of the home’s sick residents tested
Health officials announced that Legionella bacteria was detected in a New York City hospital in the Bronx, the second borough in the city dealing with the dangerous bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ disease. Currently, upper Manhattan is dealing with a Legionnaires’ cluster that has sickened 27 with one death.
Routine testing of the potable water supply
Elevated levels of Legionella bacteria were discovered at the Town Hall in West Orange, NJ, after Legionnaires’ disease hospitalized a long-time municipal employee.
After learning of the worker’s illness, officials of the central Essex County town hired an outside environmental company to test water sources at the two buildings in which the employee worked.
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The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) announced that five new cases of Legionnaires’ disease had been confirmed in the cluster affecting upper Manhattan, increasing the number of people sickened to 27.
Three of the cluster’s victims have been hospitalized, and one person has died. The illness has infected residents of southern Washington Heights
Legionella bacteria was present in preliminary test results at St. John’s Fountain Lake senior community in Albert Lea, MN, according to St. John’s CEO Scot Spates. It was also announced that a third resident had taken ill with Legionnaires’ disease, which is caused by Legionella.
The three illnesses were confirmed to the Minnesota
For the second time in less than 12 months, a North Waco, TX, hotel is under investigation for a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak after two guests were confirmed with the illness.
The out-of-state guests were diagnosed upon their return home. They stayed separately earlier this month at the Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Waco North,
While health officials haven’t definitively pinpointed the exact source of the Legionnaires’ disease cluster in which 12 people have been sickened in McHenry County, IL, investigators have narrowed their probe for six cases.
The McHenry County Department of Health (MCDH), working in cooperation with the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and the Centers for
The Cuyahoga County Board of Health (CCBH) confirmed it is investigating 11 cases of Legionnaires’ disease, including the death of one person, all connected to the Saint Columbkille Church parish in suburban Cleveland.
All 11 victims were hospitalized, but the statuses of the remaining 10 patients, their names and genders were not released, citing
Legionella bacteria has sickened six individuals in suburban Cleveland, and health inspectors said they believe the source of the illness may be St. Columbkille Church, where all six are parishioners, according to a statement released by The Catholic Diocese of Cleveland.
Cleveland 19 reporter Lacey Crisp reported that a woman in Parma – about 10