Legionella DNA in 84% of US cooling towers
2017-05-31
With the rate of legionnaires’ disease in the US said to have risen nearly fourfold between 2000 and 2014, a new study has found legionella DNA in 84% of cooling towers tested. Cooling towers were the source of a large outbreak in New York City’s South Bronx in 2015 in which 138 people were sickened and 16 died.
