The 1976 legionnaires' disease investigation revealed how modernization, through things like HVAC systems, can ...

A waterborne bacteria at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center has infected 18 people, prompting an investigation that ...

An elderly Sebastopol man has died after contracting Legionnaires’ disease, a serious form of pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacteria, Sonoma County health officials said Friday morning. County ...

Legionella pneumophila thrives in aquatic environments within protozoan hosts and enters the human lung following inhalation of contaminated aerosols. Once internalised by alveolar macrophages, the ...

(CNN) — New York City health officials are continuing to investigate a cluster of cases of Legionnaires’ disease, a serious bacterial lung infection, that has sickened at least 83 people and led to 21 ...

Donna Jobling, 58, survived but fears she may never recover after she contracted Legionnaires’ disease, a potentially lethal ...

LOS ANGELES — Kaiser Permanente is still trying to determine the source of bacteria responsible for 19 recent cases of Legionella infection identified at a hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area. The ...

Swimming in some lakes with still water can lead to infection with Legionella, bacteria that can cause pneumonia, and people who engage in open water swimming should be aware of this risk, say the ...

Quebec's public health board says legionnaires' disease has claimed another victim in Quebec City, raising to 10 the number of people who have died from complications. On Friday, the public health ...

Just one new case of Legionnaires' disease was reported Tuesday in southeast Poland in an area close to the Ukraine border, an indication the spread of the disease has been curbed following chlorine ...