Legionella News

19th July 2008

UK: An investigation is under way after a patient at a hospital in Cheltenham was diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease. It is not known whether the patient contracted the disease while at Cheltenham General Hospital or if it was brought in from outside.

13th July 2008 KILLINGTON, Vt (USA).—A judge has OK'd the installation of a receiver for the Cortina Inn, which closed last month after tests found its water supply tainted by the bacteria that causes Legionnaires disease.
12th Jully 2008 Onondaga County, New York (WSYR-TV) - The Onondaga County Health Department tells us an eleventh person has been diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease.
10th July 2008 The building where Johns Hopkins Hospital cares for its transplant patients is on water restrictions this week after routine tests of the water system on July 2 turned up evidence of the bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease.
9th July 2008 IRELAND - THERE are fears for the health of colleagues of two insurance workers hospitalised after contracting the potentially deadly legionnaires' disease at their workplace.
6th July 2008 The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is joining forces with local authorities in Herts and Beds to warn industrial estates of impending health and safety inspections.
4th July 2008 Three quarters of Welsh nursing homes inspected by the Health and Safety Executive had problems which had to be corrrected. Legionella risk and the correct use of bedrails were the main recurring areas of concern.
3rd July 2008 Cider maker HP Bulmer and its water treatment contractor Nalco have been fined £300,000 each after a fatal outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease.
1st July 2008 An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease which claimed two lives and struck down more than 20 other members of the public was caused by sub-standard cleaning and maintenance of a cooling tower, a court has been told.
29th June 2008 NOTTINGHAM - Showers on a new children's ward at the Queen's Medical Centre have been closed after traces of legionella were found. The bacteria discovered in showers on the recently revamped ward E17 can cause legionnaires' disease, a form of pneumonia that can be fatal.
25th June 2008 The British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) has unveiled a raft of examinations to test competence in legionella protection and proficiency with ventilation systems.
17th June 2008 USA - Three Kanawha County residents have contracted Legionnaires' disease within the past two weeks, Kanawha-Charleston Health Department chief Dr. Kerry Gateley said Tuesday.
11th June 2008 LEWISHAM (UK) - A FURIOUS swimmer has hit out after the public was not told about potentially deadly bacteria at a swimming pool for two months.
10th June 2008 CHICAGO (USA) - Two people have been found to have Legionnaires' disease after staying at a Hampton Inn in McHenry, the McHenry County Department of Health reported Friday.
9th June 2008 SPRINGFIELD, (USA)) - The Illinois Department of Public Health says two people who used a hot tub at a hotel in McHenry County have been diagnosed with Legionnaires' Disease.
30th May 2008 Lewisham UK: Ladywell pool in Lewisham High Street has been shut until further notice because of the Legionella bacteria.
20th May 2008 HOPPERS CROSSING, AUSTRALIA — Two more people have been diagnosed with Legionnaire’s disease after reportedly contacting the disease at a local carwash, according to The Hoppers Crossing Star.
18th May 2008

Belfast City Council bosses have moved quickly to prevent the spread of a potentially deadly virus at a top leisure centre.

16th May 2008 NORTON SHORES (USA) -- Health officials are stumped by a cluster of Legionnaires' disease cases in Norton Shores that have no apparent link.
19th April 2008 EFFORTS are being made to trace more than 200 people who stayed at a Scottish leisure resort visited by a victim of Legionnaire's disease shortly before his death. Legionella bacteria have been found in a shower head and hot tub in a lodge at Piperdam Golf and Leisure Resort near Dundee.
17th April 2008 PART of a leisure resort was closed yesterday after the bacteria which causes the deadly Legionnaire's disease was found on the site. An inquiry was launched after a 60-year-old man, who had visited the Piperdam resort near Dundee, died of the disease on Friday at a hospital in England.
8th April 2008 Cortina Inn will be allowed to reopen, but the water-system operator at the hotel said the Legionella bacteria that closed the resort most likely originated in the hot water tank.
5th April 2008 The Orange County Health Department says it has confirmed a case of Legionnaires' disease in another person who stayed at the hotel during the same time as the three initial cases.
13th March 2008 B&Q was fined £20,000 by magistrates in South Gloucestershire on Tuesday after they heard its Longwell Green store had a working spa pool on display which contained water contaminated with the potentially lethal bacteria.
7th March 2008 The property developer bought the luxury hotel in 2004, but the discovery of legionella bacterium meant it closed and he was made bankrupt.
5th March 2008 The state has denied that University Hospitals is responsible for the death of a Johnson County woman whose family alleged that she died from Legionnaires' disease contracted at the hospital.
25th February 2008

A FORMER deputy head teacher died in hospital yesterday of legionnaire's disease. John Adrain, believed to be in his early 60s, worked at Greenwood Academy in Irvine, Ayrshire, for many years. He died from the bug after being admitted to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock.
20th February 2008 Showers at Stroud's leisure centre have been closed after testing positive for the bacteria which can cause deadly Legionnaires disease.
18th February 2008 A second hospital in the Midlands has detected unacceptable levels of the bacteria responsible for causing the potentially deadly Legionnaires' Disease in its water system.
15th February 2008

A PUBLIC swimming pool which was closed after a man was admitted to hospital suffering from Legionnaires' disease is not expected to reopen until tomorrow. The condition of the Lanarkshire man, who has not been named, remained stable yesterday as investigations to identify the possible source of the infection continued.
14th February 2008 Legionnaires' scare pool still shut. A swimming pool at the centre of a Legionnaires' disease scare remains closed
9th February 2008 Swimming pool shut after man falls ill with legionella. A public swimming pool has been closed after a man was admitted to hospital suffering from Legionnaires' disease, health chiefs said last night.
1st February 2008 The family of a Johnson County woman who died of Legionella pneumonia allegedly contracted at University Hospitals has sued the state.
30th January 2008 LEGIONELLA bacteria has been found at Stratford Park Leisure Centre in Stroud, it emerged today. Showers at the complex have been temporarily closed to the public after routine water samples showed low counts of the bacteria.
21st January 2008 TRACES of Legionella bacteria have been found in several cooling towers in Auckland’s CBD, but this should not alarm eastern residents, say local health authorities
4th January 2008 A bacteria responsible for causing the potentially deadly Legionnaires' Disease has been detected in a hospital's water system.
30th December 2007 One of Auckland's fanciest skyscrapers has been cleared of bacteria that killed three Christchurch people in 2005 and an Auckland person last year
29th December 2007 The Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) has advised Auckland City Council that routine tests of several air conditioning cooling towers in buildings in the CBD have identified a high legionella count in one of these buildings.
27th December 2007 BRECKSVILLE, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County health officials are investigating a possible outbreak of Legionnaire's disease at the Brecksville veterans hospital.
20th December 2007 THE town hall team charged with preventing another Legionnaires’ Disease outbreak was learning today what can be done to safeguard the health and safety of Barrow citizens.
30th November 2007 Legionella scare at stations. BACTERIA which can lead to Legionnaire's disease has been found in the water at a South Tyneside police station. The discovery was made during a routine test of the water systems at the Marine Police Unit in Jarrow
16th November 2007

A SCHOOL was closed and is to be deep cleaned this weekend after "slightly elevated" levels of Legionella bacteria were found during routine water checks. Students at Lockyer's Middle School in Corfe Mullen were sent home on Thursday afternoon, and the school remained closed yesterday.
3rd November 2007 A lack of clarity on who is responsible for making sure schools and council-run care homes are free from legionnaire's disease could land Norfolk County Council in court, it emerged today.
2nd November 2007 A PROBE into a Caversham man's death from Legionnaires' disease switched this week to a government office block in the town centre where a worker died three years ago
14th October 2007 A 30-bed step-down unit adjacent to Dublin's Beaumont Hospital has been closed temporarily after the legionella bacteria was found in the water supply
12th October 2007 Canadians who turn down the temperature of their hot water heater to reduce energy costs, may be exposing themselves and their families to dangerous bacterial contamination.
8th October 2007 A CASE of the deadly Legionnaires' disease has been confirmed at St Vincent's Hospital, Mountmellick, Co Laois, which specialises in the care for the elderly.
3rd October Two cases of Legionnaires' disease have been confirmed at a paper mill in Mpumalanga (South Africa) , SABC television news reported on Wednesday.
12th September 2007 A SCOTTISH holidaymaker has died after contracting Legionnaires' disease on a coach trip to Italy.
6th September 2007 GRAND RAPIDS -- Documents obtained by 24 Hour News 8 under the Freedom of Information Act shed insight into the deadly Legionella outbreak at Saint Mary's Hospital in Grand Rapids.
3rd September 2007 CIDER giant Bulmers has admitted responsibility for the Legionnaires' disease outbreak that swept across Hereford in 2003.
31st August 2007 Scott Miller's family says he contracted the legionella bacteria while showering at Saint Mary's Health Care. He died on July 29th about a month after being admitted to the hospital.
24th August 2007 Legionella discovered at Maidston prison: Part of a prison in Kent has been evacuated after Legionella bacteria was found in the water system. Inmates in one wing of Maidstone Prison were moved to other jails, while tests on a prison officer proved negative, the Ministry of Justice said.
23rd August 2007 AN ENFIELD school is expected to open a week late this year after an outbreak of Legionella bacteria in the school's water supply
20th August 2007 A probe into a reported Legionnaires' disease case at the Pirbright lab site linked to the Surrey foot-and-mouth outbreak is being carried out.
11th August 2007 THE discovery of a strain of the legionella bacterium sparked a health scare at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
11th August 2007 Hospitals of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Region, are currently taking care of 38 people diagnosed with pneumonia; three of the patients turned out not to have been infected with legionella, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region Ministry of Healthcare Konstantin Shestakov said to UrBC.
3rd August 2007 Scarborough Hospital is facing a bill of about £100,000 to re-plumb two wards after traces of a bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease was found.
2nd August 2007 YEKATERINBURG, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - Three people have died and 129 are in hospital in the Urals, diagnosed with a virus possibly contracted from the hot water supply following maintenance work, local health officials said.
1st August 2007

TWO cruise liner passengers have tested positive for Legionnaire's Disease, it was confirmed as the ship docked at Dover two days early. The Black Watch, operated by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, cut short an excursion after seven passengers fell ill with flu-like symptoms on Friday.

27th July 2007 An inquest into the deaths of three people from Legionella has heard that it could become compulsory for water cooling towers to make test results for bacteria available to health officials.
14th July 2007 ONE hundred and fifteen people are believed to have been affected by the Legionnaires’ disease bug in an outbreak at a Sunderland leisure club, a report said yesterday.
13th July 2007 A PETITION calling for the resignation of Barrow Borough Council chief executive Tom Campbell is set to be handed in today.
11th July 2007 Three cases of Legionnaires' disease have been confirmed in Surrey Heath, the borough council has revealed.
10th July 2007 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA — A local hospital here was scheduled to begin on July 4 a C$70,000 (US $66,816) project to eliminate Legionella bacteria from its water system,
16th June 2007

THE deadly bacteria linked to Legionnaires' disease has been found in the Nunhead Green community centre - South East London

18th May 2007 They're a great way to relax, but one woman's dip in a hot tub nearly cost her her life. Now she's warning others about her horrifying ordeal.
11th May 2007 Queensland Health has confirmed a man who works at the Brisbane Convention Centre in the city's south has contracted Legionnaire's disease, but the centre has been ruled out as the source of infection.
18th April 2007 Croydon Council has said it has spared no expense in attempts to eradicate traces of a potentially dangerous bacteria from a school and sports centre
15th April 2007 Two hit in second legionella outbreak in Sidney (Aus) This is the second outbreak of legionnaire's disease in Sydney this year.
12th April 2007 A steelworker at the Scunthorpe Corus works has become seriously ill after contracting Legionnaire's disease.
4th April 2007 A damning report into Britain's worst outbreak of legionnaires' disease, which killed seven people in Barrow, said today there was a catalogue of errors from officials.
30th March 2007 Legionella scare at sports centre. The Kidlington and Gosford Sports Centre closed at 4pm after samples taken from the hot water taps showed traces of the Legionella bacteria - which can lead to Legionnaires' disease.
24th March 2007 Legionnaire's scare at school. Hot water taps were sealed off and pupils were forced to eat their dinner in a school’s hall amid allegations the legionella bacteria was in its water system.
17th March 2007
12th March 2007 A SINGLE inquest with no jury will determine how and why Barrow’s Legionnaires’ Disease victims died.
7th March 2007 MILTON KEYNES Hotel health scare: ALMOST six months after a guest fell critically ill with suspected Legionnaire's disease, facilities at a city hotel remain closed on the orders of health chiefs.
22nd February 2007 Creswell Leisure Centre closed AGAIN after more Legionella found
18th February 2007 Firefighters tested after Legionella found at Fire station - Lowestoft UK
16th February 2007 Legionella found in Gaol (Ireland) ........Gaol or Jail - are the bbc correct?
8th February 2007 HSE warn companies to ensure that chilled water systems are treated to prevent legionella growth
7th February 2007 Wallsall company fined £ 15,000 for poor management of a CHILLED systems
3rd February 2007 Legionella found at Army barracks used by troops guarding Buckingham Palace
26th January 2007 AN INVESTIGATION is under way into cleaning and maintenance records at the Royal Automobile Club to determine whether the building has breached public health laws after high levels of legionella bacteria were found in its cooling tower.
21st January 2007 THREE more people have contracted legionnaires' disease, with at least two of the cases linked to the recent outbreak at Circular Quay (AUS).
15th January 2007 Four Nordic Tourists infected by Legionnaires’ disease at the Grand Tropicana Hotel in Phuket.
12th January 2007

Showers at a Nottinghamshire leisure centre have been closed after the discovery of legionella bacteria in a shower head during an inspection.