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
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
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
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