Source: https://www.njspotlightnews.org/, July 22, 2024
By: Lilo H. Stainton

Seven years ago, Morristown resident Kevin Hanlon, then 47, was recovering from lung cancer when he encountered something in a Manhattan office building that proved even more deadly: Legionella.

The bacteria, spread through water droplets propelled by powerful commercial air conditioners, resulted in Legionnaires’ disease, a serious pneumonia that is particularly dangerous to people with preexisting health conditions. Ten months later he was dead. Read more.