Three senior citizens have died after contracting Legionnaires' disease — a form of pneumonia that can spread via water — at an assisted living facility in Albany, New York, according to reports.

The reported case of Legionnaires’ disease, a severe form of pneumonia, comes less than three weeks after GSA found the bacteria that can cause the disease in water throughout the building ...

Recent outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease have been linked to cruise ship hot tubs, according to CDC reports. Infectious disease experts discuss symptoms and prevention.

By Erin Brockovich, For The Trentonian. New Jersey created a blueprint for Legionnaires’ disease (LD) prevention. After years of LD cases in and around Trenton (link: https://www.trentonian.com ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cuyahoga County Justice Center’s water system was disinfected Friday due to the detection of bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease, the county said Friday in a ...

A dozen cruise ship passengers were sickened by Legionnaires' disease -- including 10 who were hospitalized -- on two different ships, and the CDC traced the outbreak to private balcony hot tubs ...

In 2023, there were 604 reported cases of Legionnaires' disease and 19 deaths in England and Wales. In all, 212 of these cases were associated with travel abroad.

Legionnaires' disease is caused by inhaling water droplets contaminated with the Legionella bacteria. The bacteria can grow in water droplets from showers, hot tubs, faucets, cooling towers ...

While Legionella bacteria occur naturally in freshwater environments, they primarily cause disease after growing in certain human-made water systems that aerosolize water. Legionnaires’ disease ...

What is Legionnaires' disease, what are symptoms and HOW it spreads - as one man DIES from rare illness after outbreak spread to 12. Legionnaires outbreak in Sydney becomes fatal ...

LINCOLN, N.H. (AP) — Five people who developed Legionnaires’ disease in Lincoln, New Hampshire, may have been exposed to contaminated water droplets from a cooling tower behind a resort, the ...