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David Sassoli, the president of the European Parliament, died early Tuesday in Italy, his spokesman and the parliament’s office in Washington said. He was 65. ..... No cause of death was immediately available. But he was hospitalized with severe pneumonia during a plenary session of the Parliament in Strasbourg, France, in September. He later returned to Italy to recover, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Sassoli was hospitalized again in Italy on Dec. 26 because his immune system was not functioning normally, his spokesman, Roberto Cuillo, said on Monday on social media.

The Nassau County Department of Health is investigating a Legionnaires’ outbreak on the border of Levittown and Wantagh. Ten people were hospitalized with Legionnaires’ disease in a 1-mile radius of Wantagh Avenue and Old Jerusalem Road. One person has died, and two others remain hospitalized. Seven people have been released from the hospital. Residents tell News 12 they are concerned and hope the Department of Health releases more information. Wantagh resident Christine Schlendorf says she wants to know where it came from. “I want to know where the contamination originates from or where it actually comes from,” says Schlendorf. “That’s...

The Centre for Health Protection has found excessive levels of Legionella bacteria in tested samples of cooling towers at Choi Hung MTR station following 11 infections in Wong Tai Sin, a nearby neighbourhood. The water-dwelling bacteria causes Legionnaires’ disease which can lead to a fever, cough, headache, muscle pain and diarrhoea. Humans contract the disease – which can be lethal – by inhaling contaminated droplets. The incubation period is around two to 10 days. High-risk groups including people over the age of 50 and with weakened immunity. There is no known vaccine but the disease can be treated with antibiotics....

Primary Menu NEWS VIDEO WEATHER SPORTS LIVIN’ UPSTATE YOUR CAROLINA COMMUNITY REPORT IT! ABOUT US CW62 Search 1 dead, 14 cases of Legionnaires’ disease in NC linked to Mountain State Fair NEWS by: WSPA Staff Posted: Sep 24, 2019 / 03:19 PM EDT / Updated: Sep 24, 2019 / 07:16 PM EDT health doctor stethoscope charter medical doctor generic_407357 BUNCOMBE COUNTY, NC (WSPA) – One person has died and officials say 14 total cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been reported by people who attended the North Carolina Mountain State Fair in Fletcher, N.C. earlier this month. Buncombe County and Henderson...

There’s something very odd about the diagnosis that Dr. Lisa Bardack has presented for her patient Secretary Hillary Clinton, it’s doesn’t exist. As you can see from the two-page letter presented today by Hillary Clinton’s doctor, she has been diagnosed with “mild non-contagious bacterial pneumonia“. However, there’s a problem…. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD), an ObamaCare standard, is designed code all medical diagnostics. According to ICD-9 codes, and the more current ICD-10 coding, there’s no such diagnosis as “non contagious bacterial pneumonia“. Dr. Bardack apparently made it up. Dr. Milton Wolf was the first to notice the issue:

Editor's note: This story is the second of two parts. A high-ranking official with Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System wanted the agency to keep quiet about a deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak rather than warn the public, internal emails indicate. ... The email is among nearly 7,000 pages of internal VA emails and documents the Tribune-Review obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

An unknown number of U.S. military veterans are dead within 30 days of contracting Legionnaires' disease in a Veterans Affairs hospital in Pittsburgh. Aside from their family members, few people seem to be outraged. If that doesn't grab your attention, perhaps this will: VA officials in charge when those men were dying from a preventable illness received more than $100,000 in performance bonuses. The same bureaucrats who were paid handsomely for negligence and incompetence also refuse to answer reporters' questions about whether they've removed the deadly Legionella bacteria from hospitals that were built to heal, protect and serve those who...

LOS ANGELES -- Health officials say the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's disease was found in the grotto of the Playboy Mansion, a whirlpool hot tub famed for steamy escapades. Scores of people who attended a fundraiser there in February reported becoming ill afterwards.

After five years of lying low, Legionnaire's disease - a potentially fatal lung infection - returned to the small city of Alcoi, Spain, on July 21, 2009. > This microbe lives in fresh water nearly everywhere, and it becomes a problem only when inhaled as a fine spray or aerosol. (Legionella is harmless if you drink it.) Outbreaks are usually traced back to man-made supplies of warm water, such as water cooling systems, fountains, hot tubs, even showers. > Investigations into Legionella outbreaks are difficult, according to Dr. Lauri Hicks, a medical epidemiologist in the respiratory-diseases branch of the Centers...

Bacteria testing not mandated at elder housing When she talks about her father - a World War II veteran known for his charm and humble way - Paula Alston usually starts to cry. Four years ago, Alston's father, then 81, died from pneumonia caused in part by Legionnaires' disease, an infection spread by inhaling contaminated water particles. Richard Guthrie Jr. contracted the disease while living at the Nathan Barnert Homes on Keen Street in Paterson, according to county health officials. The outbreak sickened at least one other resident of the public housing facility. The elderly and those with compromised immune...

Congressman wants better data on cruise ship crime WASHINGTON (AP) -- Only five of the 28 people who disappeared from cruise ships in the past three years were found, according to data disclosed to Congress by the world's largest cruise lines. A congressional memo compiled in advance of a House hearing on cruise ship safety Tuesday also details 177 sexual misconduct incidents, ranging from inappropriate touching to rape, and four robberies of amounts over $5,000. During that three-year period approximately 25 million people embarked on cruises from North America ports, the memo said.

TORONTO (CP) - A mysterious outbreak at a nursing home that claimed 16 lives and stoked international fears about the safety of Canada's largest city was likely caused by legionnaires' disease, a form of pneumonia, public health officials said Thursday. Autopsy results showed at least three of the deaths at the Seven Oaks Home for the Aged were directly linked to the disease, said infectious disease expert Dr. Donald Low, who gave briefings almost daily during Toronto's 2003 SARS crisis. "We'll continue to look for other possibilities, but we feel pretty confident . . .we're dealing with legionnaires' disease," Low...

Just a week after a Manhattan hospital was blamed for the death of a patient from Legionnaires' disease, another said that it may have found the bacteria inside of it as well. Harlem Hospital Center officials said traces of legionella bacteria was found on a sink and a shower head at its building on West 136th Street. But the hospital said no cases of the disease was found in patients. Officials at the hospital said they were superheating its water supply and taking additional steps to kill the bacteria. The news comes just after four patients contracted Legionnaires' disease at...

NEW YORK State health officials are investigating the death of a Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center patient, which may have been caused by an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease. The officials believe the bacteria may have been in the hospital's water system. Richard Montesano died last Wednesday shortly after coming to the hospital for a heart condition. He was using a machine that sprayed water in his throat to fight sleep apnea, but the hospital did not warn his family that tap water could be dangerous. Legionnaire's disease can be found in the water systems of large buildings and is hazardous to...

BUG outbreak 'treated like murder' by Danielle Gusmaroli Police investigating one of Britain's biggest outbreaks of legionnaires' disease are treating the inquiry "as if it were murder", they said today as the number of confirmed cases rose to 54. Barrow Borough council, which runs the Forum 28 entertainment complex in Cumbria - where traces of the potentially fatal bacteria have been found in the water-cooling system - could face a charge of corporate manslaughter. The Barrow-in-Furness outbreak killed Richard Macaulay 88, on Friday. About 71 people are in hospital, 15 of them in intensive care and four "giving cause for...