Hospital-Related Infection -- United States
Three heater-cooler units -- equipment used to heat and cool patients during heart surgery -- tested positive for _Legionella_ bacteria at the University of Washington [UW] Medical Center in Seattle, according to a statement from UW Medicine. The news comes after the bacteria infected 4 patients at the hospital, causing a type of pneumonia known as Legionnaires' disease. Two of the infected patients have died.
The source of the outbreak has been linked to the hospital's water system, as
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