FLINT, MI — Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks in the Flint area during the city’s water crisis appear to have been fueled by three sources with “strong evidence” that a hospital’s water system was tied to dozens of cases in 2014 and 2015, researchers from a Netherlands-based company say in a study published today.
The report, published in the journal “Environmental Health Perspectives” on Wednesday, Dec. 4, says 42 of 86 patients who contracted Legionnaires’, a severe pneumonia, had been in one hospital, identified by the state as McLaren-Flint, during their incubation period and that there “were more cases that had contact with the hospital than would be expected if this was coincidence.”
Credit: Janice Haney Carr CDC
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