New Cooling Tower Protects A Hospital's Low Infection Rate
A new Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study involving 196 cooling towers nationwide found that 84% contained Legionella DNA, indicating that the dangerous bacteria was present or had been at some point.
“During 2000–2014, passive surveillance for legionellosis in the United States demonstrated a 286% increase in reported cases per 100,000 population,” according to the CDC website.