[neverdem]

What's one more phony scandal? /s

[Impy]

Unknown number? It should be made known.

Hospital infections killed my grandma, those places are filthy. Wouldn’t expect any better from the federal government, though our vets deserve it.

[LadyDoc]

I checked the CDC site and they identified the cause and it's cleaned up. Local construction resulted in the germ getting into the air and it ended up contaminating their water system. Apparantly the chlorine/heating/silver/copper methods of keeping the water clean were not strong enough for this germ, even though the levels used worked to stop the Legionella germ before. LINK

I also wrote about it on my medical blog.LINK.

The Mainstream media only would care if it hit rich yuppies, not veterans or blue collar folk in Pittsburgh.

[cva66snipe]

I know where I would look first and I'd use a breathing device. Culture the facilities chill water unit air handling units. It's a simple prevention really and don't laugh. Urinal Cakes or simular device placed in the water in the air handling unit. This was at least a once a month usually more often routine task for us.

I'm assuming this is a fairly large facility requiring at least several hundred tons likely more of cooling. In such cases Chill Water air conditioning plants or aka Chillers are used. Water is piped to several large air handlers where the cooling coil is. These coils in extreme heat also have shower nozzle sprayers and thus the most likely source. We were doing this in a medical facility I worked at over 18 year ago.

[SkyPilot]

In my opinion, the one group of Americans who earned their health care benefits are veterans. Less than 1% of the population of this nation wears the nation's uniform and serves through blood and loneliness. Less than 7% of all Americans have ever served, and if you subtract the WW II and Korean veterans who are almost gone to be with God, than number is closer to 3%.

As in ancient Rome, the masses demand more Government benefits that they never earned.

Obama and Hagel want to quadruple TRICARE premiums, and the reaction from our "fellow Americans" is the sound of crickets.

The love of Americans has waxed cold. They surround themselves with their own misery stories, and they have quickly forgotten the sacrifice of those who gave so much for their own freedom.