Quarterly water safety tests at the Jerry L. Pettis Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Loma Linda showed evidence of Legionella, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease. Officials responded by taking the water fountains out of service until the problem is resolved, according to news reports.
“This does not mean there is a Legionella
The Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) has confirmed three additional cases of Legionnaires’ disease at The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu. One of the four patients being treated for the disease died in May after being hospitalized.
The news comes a week after the DOH announced an investigation into an individual case of Legionnaires’
One case of Legionnaires’ disease has been diagnosed on the island of Oahu and is being investigated by the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu and the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH), according to KHON2 TV.
Dr. Leslie Chu, chief medical officer at Queen’s Medical Center, confirmed that the patient is being treated there but
Three campus cooling towers and three bathrooms have tested positive for Legionella bacteria on the Wayne State University campus in Detroit, according to a university communique released this week. Legionella is the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease.
The university began conducting tests after an employee who works in the Faculty Administration Building was diagnosed
A Wayne State University (WSU) employee was diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, and university officials said they will respond by conducting water tests, according to news reports.
WSU is a public research university located in Detroit, with more than 27,000 graduate and undergraduate students.
The employee, who works in the faculty administration building, is under
A patient has contracted Legionnaires’ disease while undergoing treatment for cancer at the University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC), the third consecutive year that the deadly respiratory illness has hit the hospital.
The news comes less than a year after the death of a woman in her 20s who contracted Legionnaires’ while a patient at
Elliot Olsen has been retained by the second victim of the Water Oak Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Florida.
Dennis Nedza – a 69-year-old resident of Waterford, WI, who spends winters at Water Oak Country Club, a 55-plus retirement community in Lady Lake – first started feeling ill about April 1. He was hospitalized on April
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) officials met with tenants of the Co-Op City complex last week to inform them that no new cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been found and the risk of contracting the disease is very low, according to a story posted on Bronx.News12.com.
The community meeting comes
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
