Legionnaires' Disease

Virginia Cases Linked to Hot Tub

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 10th, 1997

Twenty-three people contracted Legionnaires' disease from a contaminated whirlpool spa display at a retail home improvement center in Virginia between September and October of 1996, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Twenty-two of the cases were hospitalized and two died of the disease, the CDC investigation revealed.

The report was published in the January 31, 1997 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Vol. 46, No. 4).

Approximately 10,000 to 15,000 cases of Legionnaires' disease occur each year in the United States, and investigations have documented aerosol transmission from...

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