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October 04, 2015

Legionnaires' Bacteria Reemerges In Previously Disinfected Cooling Towers

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schwit1 writes with the New York Times' unsettling report that 15 water-cooling towers in the Bronx that this week tested positive for Legionnaires' disease had been disinfected less than two months ago. From the NYT: After an outbreak of the disease killed 12 people in July and August in the South Bronx, the city required every building with cooling towers, a common source of the Legionella bacteria that cause the disease, to be cleaned within two weeks. ... [The] city found this week that bacteria had regrown in at least 15 towers that had been cleaned recently in the Morris Park section of the Bronx. The testing occurred after a fresh outbreak in that area that has killed one person and sickened at least 12, and spurred an order from health officials for the towers to be disinfected again.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Legionnaires'+Bacteria+Reemerges+In+Previously+Disinfected+Cooling+Towers%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1M9189y"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F10%2F04%2F095216%2Flegionnaires-bacteria-reemerges-in-previously-disinfected-cooling-towers%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/10/04/095216/legionnaires-bacteria-reemerges-in-previously-disinfected-cooling-towers?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/10/04/095216/legionnaires-bacteria-reemerges-in-previously-disinfected-cooling-towers?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/WefdPRZQaoE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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