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What we know now about the Flint-area's Legionnaires' outbreak
Updated February 17, 2017
Posted February 17, 2017
Cases of Legionnaires' disease skyrocketed when the Flint River was used for drinking water
During the two years the city of Flint used the Flint River as its source of drinking water, the number of cases and deaths associated with Legionnaires' disease skyrocketed -- 90 cases and 12 deaths in Genesee County during that time.
Virginia Tech professor Amy Pruden is among those who hypothesize that the use of the river without proper treatment to make it less corrosive caused releases of iron and nutrients, and depleted chlorine residual in the water system -- a condition in which the Legionella bacteria thrived...
What we know now about the Flint-area's Legionnaires' outbreak
Updated February 17, 2017
Posted February 17, 2017
Cases of Legionnaires' disease skyrocketed when the Flint River was used for drinking water
During the two years the city of Flint used the Flint River as its source of drinking water, the number of cases and deaths associated with Legionnaires' disease skyrocketed -- 90 cases and 12 deaths in Genesee County during that time.
Virginia Tech professor Amy Pruden is among those who hypothesize that the use of the river without proper treatment to make it less corrosive caused releases of iron and nutrients, and depleted chlorine residual in the water system -- a condition in which the Legionella bacteria thrived...