The death toll from an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in Rzeszow, southeast Poland, has risen to five, local authorities said Thursday as they try to detect the contamination source.
Aug 24, 2023
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A new class of drugs has shown promise for treating the bacteria that cause legionnaires' disease, a potentially fatal lung infection.
Mar 7, 2016
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Disneyland has shut down two cooling towers after people who visited the Southern California theme park came down with Legionnaires' disease.
Nov 11, 2017
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A spokeswoman for a Cleveland hospital says a 53-year-old woman has died from complications of community-acquired Legionnaires' disease.
Aug 7, 2015
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All was quiet Wednesday at a GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical plant that was shut down after the drug maker discovered the bacteria that cause potentially fatal Legionnaires' disease in a cooling tower at the site.
Aug 12, 2015
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A team of specialist researchers in Melbourne believe they have found a major response that helps keep the Legionella infection at bay.
Jun 15, 2016
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed legislation aimed at preventing further outbreaks of deadly Legionnaires' disease.
Aug 18, 2015
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Even as New York faces the largest outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the city's history, John A. Sellick, Jr., DO, University at Buffalo associate professor of medicine, does not believe there is an epidemic.
Aug 6, 2015
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Two more people in the Bronx have died of Legionnaires' disease, bringing the total of fatalities to 12 in the largest outbreak of the disease in New York City history, officials said Monday.
Aug 10, 2015
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A DNA test method called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) allowed New York City health officials to identify the source of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak within hours of specimen collection and should be considered in all ...
Apr 10, 2018
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