Westchester County health officials said on Friday that the number of patients who had contracted Legionnaires' disease at Sound Shore Medical Center had climbed to 12, and they urged anyone with strong flulike symptoms who had been in the vicinity of the hospital to have a medical examination...Technorati Tags: Legionnaires' Disease, Medicine, Pneumonia, Hospital Acquired Pneumonia
I'm Dr. Joshua Schwimmer, a nephrologist and internal medicine physician in New York City. • Kidney Notes was the first active nephrology blog. (Trivia: Kidney Notes is so old that the National Library of Medicine still uses it as an example of how to formally cite blogs.) • Professionally, you can find me at Kidney.nyc. • Kidney Notes is for educational purposes only, not medical advice. Consult qualified health care professionals. See disclaimer.
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Another Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak
I previously wrote about Legionnaires' Disease at Columbia University Medical Center. From the New York Times: