CDC Gives Update on Deadly Legionnaires’ Outbreak in California

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided an update on an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in California that led to at least one death and was linked to the local tap water supplies. The death was one of more than a dozen people who contracted the bacterial infection that was linked to a water system in Napa County, located in the Bay Area, according to a report issued Thursday by the CDC. Between mid-July and mid-August of last year, officials identified 17 Legionnaires’ disease cases, including 14 and three suspected cases in the area, according to the report. Among those 17 cases, 16 of them were hospitalized, and five required “intubation and mechanical ventilation,” the agency said....