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
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 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 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
