{"id":10711,"date":"2025-11-05T09:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10711"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:41:51","slug":"2-cases-of-legionnaires-disease-reported-at-cincinnati-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/05\/2-cases-of-legionnaires-disease-reported-at-cincinnati-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"2 cases of Legionnaires\u2019 disease reported at Cincinnati hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox19.com\/2025\/11\/03\/2-cases-legionnaires-disease-reported-cincinnati-hospital\/\">Fox News<\/a>  Local and state health departments are testing the water at The Christ Hospital\u2019s main campus after two people were diagnosed with Legionnaires\u2019 disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Christ Hospital Health Network told FOX19 NOW in a statement that the two cases appeared separately \u201cover the past six weeks,\u201d which would be some time between mid-September and the end of October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both people have since been diagnosed with Legionella pneumonia, which potentially came from The Christ Hospital\u2019s main campus, although it is not confirmed, the hospital network said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile the exact source of exposure for these individuals is currently unknown, The Christ Hospital immediately initiated additional environmental testing protocols to identify any potential hospital-related sources and ensure maximum levels of safety,\u201d The Christ Hospital Health Network wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News Local and state health departments are testing the water at The Christ Hospital\u2019s main campus after two people were diagnosed with Legionnaires\u2019 disease. The Christ Hospital Health Network told FOX19 NOW in a statement that the two cases appeared separately \u201cover the past six weeks,\u201d which would be some time between mid-September and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10712,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10711\/revisions\/10712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}