Bacteria dislodged by hospital decontamination work
Work to clean up a hospital bacteria outbreak inadvertently led to more contamination, new documents reveal. Brain surgery was postponed at Edinburgh’s Western General in March after a small number of patients contracted the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bug from showers and taps in a ward. Health Protection Scotland (HPS) papers show a shower in the hospital’s… Read more »
Public Health England Monthly Legionella Report – September 2019
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Australian woman fights for her life after contracting Legionnaires’ disease while on holiday in Bali
An Australian woman is fighting for her life in an intensive care unit after she contracted legionnaires disease while holidaying in Bali. Perth based sales manager Lindsay Munro and her family were holidaying in Kuta last week. But when they returned home, her sister was diagnosed with the potentially deadly disease, and is currently fighting for… Read more »
Global Novel Water Sustainability Technologies Report 2019: Key Projects and Opportunities, Financing, and Venture Capital, Transactions and Trends
The scope of this report is broad and covers various technologies in sustainable water management across various end users. Novel water sustainability technologies are broken down by technology and end user. Revenue forecasts from 2018-2024 are given for each technology, application and end user, with estimated valued derived from the revenue of manufacturers total revenues…. Read more »
New insight on how bacteria evolve drug resistance could lead to improved antibiotic therapies
Researchers have provided new insight into a mechanism behind the evolution of antibiotic resistance in a type of bacterium that causes severe infections in humans. Their findings in the multidrug-resistant bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa), published today in eLife, suggest the strategy could be exploited to develop new and sustainable antibiotic treatments. FULL ARTICLE
Vast Differences in Legionnaires’ Disease Response by Industry
Before a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at an agricultural fair in western North Carolina last month, no one in the area had any idea of the damage to come. Fairgoers and state health officials alike were oblivious to the health risk that lurked in the plumbing of the Davis Event Center, the structure at… Read more »
Fear of ‘unsafe’ water at Southsea filling stations as they repeatedly fail Legionella lab tests
WATER refill stations costing £38,000 of public cash have repeatedly failed tests for Legionella with council workers flushing away thousands of litres of water to keep them safe. Four units were installed last year in Southsea by Portsmouth City Council but it has emerged they have repeatedly failed laboratory tests. FULL ARTICLE
Facility can’t accept new residents after new positive legionella test
The state health department is barring any new residents from entering an assisted living facility in Guilderland after a resident tested positive for legionnaires disease. The state ordered the Promenade Assisted Living facility to do this as they try to get the legionella bacteria levels under control. FULL ARTICLE
Cryptosporidium Found Again In Portland Water
Portland’s water bureau is warning that residents who have weakened immune systems should talk to their doctors before drinking city tap water, after tests from the Bull Run Watershed found two units of cryptosporidium in a 50-liter water sample Tuesday. FULL ARTICLE
AI Hive Mind Chooses Clean Water Over Education as Top World Priority
Universal access to clean water should be the world’s highest priority, according to a recent pronouncement by a “swarm artificial intelligence” system that connected 70 people in real time via AI algorithms designed to turn them into a “hive mind.” FULL ARTICLE







