Legionnaires' -- United States
Officials from the California Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections are investigating the presence of deadly Legionnaires' disease bacteria at a Central Valley prison. Last month [March 2019], one inmate at the California Health Care Facility in Stockton (CHCF) died of the disease -- considered a severe form of pneumonia -- and a 2nd inmate tested positive for the bacteria but is now in stable condition.
Corrections officials had thought the bacteria were isolated to one housing unit
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6433946&promed&0
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