Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental A five-star hotel in Dubai is testing for Legionnaires’ Disease after three guests contracted the illness. One of the guests of the Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi, British cricket scorer and broadcaster Bill Frindall, died on Thursday after leaving Dubai. A spokeswoman for the hotel said all tests for the bacterium that causes […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental By Barbara De Lollis, USA TODAY In the last three months, a European tourist who’d stayed at the luxury EPIC Hotel in downtown Miami died from Legionnaires’ disease, while two other prior guests had fallen ill with the same serious form of pneumonia, according to the Miami Herald. Because all three […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental The Associated Press Published: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 9:24 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 2:48 p.m. MIAMI – About 300 guests have been relocated from a luxury Miami hotel after one guest died and at least two others became sick since October from Legionnaire’s disease. Health officials […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental Oct. 18, 2008 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal Bacterium found at Polo Towers By ANNETTE WELLS REVIEW-JOURNAL The Southern Nevada Health District issued a warning to past and present guests of Polo Towers on Friday that a bacterium common in warm water that causes Legionnaires’ disease was discovered in the resort’s […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental The hospitalization cost of three U.S. waterborne diseases comes to more than $500 million annually, federal health officials say. Study authors Michael Beach of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says healthcare costs for three common waterborne diseases — Legionnaires’ disease, cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis — amount to $539 million annually. Using […]