7 Patients Legionnaire's Ohio

So the story indicates the patient was admitted with Legionnaire’s. So the patient contracted the disease outside the hospital. What is the big deal?
 
Old and funky water systems in nursing homes are suspect. How old is the water system in Connecticut that was chlorinated after the patients were diagnosed?
 
duh we're interested in water-cooling systems during this heat and its effects on old people. where and how was the LD contracted? Does the reader know why it happens in buildings 10 stories tall or less?

25 Jul 2019 Washington Post 10 Legionnaire Disease Cases Confirmed in Virginia

Connecticut
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/nation-world/health-and-medicine/article233190626.html

Rooftop water systems; thickness of foundation; placement of AC units on the ground instead of the roof come to mind.....have no idea for certain so please enlighten us
 
Will have to look up the citation again. The ten-story-or-less scenario is in a professional text about Legionella.
 
For now, the tentative text which may have already been excerpted to a USMB thread, is here:

Legionella: Current Status and Emerging Perspectives, ASM [American Society For Microbiology] Washington, D.C., 1993.
 
10 stories or less are more safe. One website addresses the Legionella story problem, 10 stories or (more [italics]):

26 Feb 2016, 9 Ways to Avoid Legionella
(site not secure)
www.buildings.com/DesktopModules/BB_ArticleMax/ArticleDetailPrint.aspx?ArticleID=19960&Template=Standard_Print.ascx&siteID=1
'....Think carefully about the number of stories as well...but the testing data indicates that you'd be foolish to assume a building is free from Legionella because it has 7 stories instead of 11. Larger piping networks are generally more prone to Legionella growth than ones found in single-family homes....'
 

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