Saturday, 30 March 2019

PRO/EDR> Legionellosis - USA (04): (NY) assisted living facility, persistent Legionella

Legionnaires' -- United States
The _Legionella_ bacteria that caused an outbreak in February [2019], sickening 2 residents of the Promenade at University Place Assisted Living facility [see ProMED-mail post Legionellosis - USA (02): (NY) fatal, assisted living facility http://bit.ly/2JP4Hgl], killing one of them, has been found to match samples from a 2012 outbreak when the building, on Route 20 in Guilderland, was a Best Western Hotel. [See ProMED-mail post Legionellosis - USA: (NY) hotel

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6394565&promed&0

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