Department administrator of community health and epidemiology Kendra Findley said water samples from Mercy health system’s center found evidence of a type of Legionella species but not the type two local people had contracted. Findley said Green County has an average of 4.5 Legionella cases a year and health officials are heightening their surveillance for the disease. The department had said in a news release that two cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been reported since late April among individuals who visited Mercy’s outpatient cancer center. People are infected with a severe form of pneumonia by inhaling airborne water droplets containing the Legionella bacterium.
Springfield Legionnaires probably not from cancer center.