Legionnaires' -- United Kingdom
An air conditioning cooling tower is to blame for an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that landed 6 people in the hospital in a single south-central London neighbourhood, public health officials announced Thursday [26 Sep 2019].
Middlesex-London Health Unit inspectors collected samples from different areas in the neighbourhood to test for the presence of _Legionella_ bacteria, the germ that causes Legionnaires' disease. Laboratory testing confirmed samples from a cooling tower were a
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6698918&promed&0
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