Between May and October, Genesee County detected 42 cases of LD. There were aswell four deaths that accept been associated with the disease. Bloom professionals at the MDHHS accept not bent whether the acceleration is because of the baptize change in Flint. They accept not alone any abeyant associations amid the ache ante and the baptize shift.
LD is because of a bacilli alleged Legionella. It about grows in balmy water, like cooling towers, hot tubs, cooler baptize systems, hot baptize tanks and adorning fountains. Legionella causes a respiratory ache and pneumonia, alleged Legionellosis. In beneath austere cases, the ache causes Pontiac fever. Fortunately, Legionella cannot be transmitted amid people.
“While cases of Legionnaires ache are not accepted in the winter, we abide absolutely affianced with the Genesee County Bloom Department as able-bodied as our federal ally at the Centers for Ache Control and Prevention to assure the bloom of Flint residents,” Dr. Eden Wells, arch medical controlling with the MDHHS, said. “We abide active in our efforts to proactively and appropriately abode the abeyant for approaching cases.”
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