Hospital-Related Infection -- United States
A 4th patient at University of Washington [UW] Medical Center has been diagnosed with legionella [infection], also known as legionnaires' disease. UW Medicine and the King County Health Department say the patient was hospitalized in the Cascade Tower. That's the same place tests have shown the bacteria exists in an ice machine, a sink, and 3 pieces of operating room equipment which did not make contact with patients.
The patient, a man in his 40s, had an underlying medical condition that
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