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County: Potential 9th case of Legionnaires
Dave McKinley , WGRZ 2:23 PM. EDT November 01, 2016
LOCKPORT, NY - Health officials continue to investigate an outbreak of Legionnaires Disease in Niagara County, which has now been linked to two deaths.
Dan Stapleton, Director of Public Health for the county, tells 2 On Your Side Tuesday a 9th potential case from the Lockport-area is now being investigated. Officials are awaiting test results that are expected back late this week or early next week to confirm if the case is indeed Legionnaires.
Under state law, health care facilities with towers or tanks storing water for heating and cooling systems must routinely test that water for presence of legionella, the bacterium that causes the pneumonia-like Legionnaires disease.
During one of the routine tests earlier this month, one of the water towers at Eastern Niagara Hospital yielded a sample with a level in excess of the safety limit.
Around the same time, there was discovered a so called cluster of 8 cases of Legionnaires disease in the Lockport-area...
County: Potential 9th case of Legionnaires
Dave McKinley , WGRZ 2:23 PM. EDT November 01, 2016
LOCKPORT, NY - Health officials continue to investigate an outbreak of Legionnaires Disease in Niagara County, which has now been linked to two deaths.
Dan Stapleton, Director of Public Health for the county, tells 2 On Your Side Tuesday a 9th potential case from the Lockport-area is now being investigated. Officials are awaiting test results that are expected back late this week or early next week to confirm if the case is indeed Legionnaires.
Under state law, health care facilities with towers or tanks storing water for heating and cooling systems must routinely test that water for presence of legionella, the bacterium that causes the pneumonia-like Legionnaires disease.
During one of the routine tests earlier this month, one of the water towers at Eastern Niagara Hospital yielded a sample with a level in excess of the safety limit.
Around the same time, there was discovered a so called cluster of 8 cases of Legionnaires disease in the Lockport-area...