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| Bacteria detected in prison's water |
| By The Baltimore Sun |
| Published: 10/04/2006 |
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HAGERSTOWN, MD - The discovery of the bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease in a Hagerstown prison's water supply has prompted Maryland officials to restrict showers in one housing unit and to limit inmates and staff assigned there to drinking bottled water, prison officials said yesterday. Prison and health officials ordered tests of the water at Roxbury Correctional Institution after a former inmate was diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease a few days after his release last month, said George Gregory, a spokesman for the state prison system. The pneumonia-like disease is spread by the release of small droplets of contaminated water, health experts say. The infected water droplets must be inhaled to cause the illness; the disease cannot be passed from person to person. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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