Just a quick one here. Though people should not focus ONLY on pathogens in buildings it certainly seems that outbreaks of Legionella such as this one: Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak, Scotland: Man Dies In Edinburgh | UK News | Sky News. could be used to call attention to the need to better understand microbiology of the …
Just a quick one here. The Google News archive has all sorts of interesting stuff in there. Much of it is not fully free / in the open but it is still interesting. For example, – check out this article reporting the first association of a bacterial association with “Legion disease”: St. Petersburg Times – Google …
Well, normally I would not want to write about things going on at the Playboy Mansion here, or really anywhere. But this story about a Legionella outbreak seems to have legs (or maybe, flagella). The LA Times has another article about this outbreak discussing in more detail how social media was used to help track …
Well, we posted about this story before – Legionella bacteria popped up at a party at the playboy mansion in February. And now apparently the source of the Legionella bacteria has been traced to … hot tubs (see Playboy Mansion illness traced to hot tub bacteria – Yahoo! News). Also of note – the epidemiologists used …
Well, I guess this is getting a bit of extra press because it occurred at the Playboy Mansion:Health probe at Playboy Mansion. But it is of relevance here since it relates to Legionnaires’ disease. Seems like there may have been a contaminated water supply.