{"id":11018,"date":"2025-12-10T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11018"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:08:08","slug":"14-cases-of-legionnaires-disease-reported-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/10\/14-cases-of-legionnaires-disease-reported-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"14 cases of Legionnaires&#8217; disease reported in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/14-cases-legionnaires-disease-reported-florida-linked-gym\/story?id=128156214\">ABC News<\/a> At least 14 cases of Legionnaires&#8217; disease have been reported in central Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an email to state Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith, the Florida Department of Health revealed the outbreak is linked to a gym, reported ABC News affiliate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/14-confirmed-cases-legionnaires-disease-central-florida-gym-exposure\/LSPPM3P535DLLA3SBYZZFBAO24\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"WFTV, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WFTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter from the department did not list the name of the gym, but WFTV previously reported that a Crunch Fitness in Ocoee &#8212; 12 miles west of Orlando &#8212;\u00a0had members reporting cases of Legionnaires&#8217; disease. However, preliminary test results shared with ABC News by Crunch Fitness in Ocoee indicated testing by state officials did not find evidence of the bacteria that causes Legionnaire&#8217;s disease in the samples taken so far at the gym.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News At least 14 cases of Legionnaires&#8217; disease have been reported in central Florida. In an email to state Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith, the Florida Department of Health revealed the outbreak is linked to a gym, reported ABC News affiliate&nbsp;WFTV. The letter from the department did not list the name of the gym, but [&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-11018","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\/11018","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=11018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11019,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions\/11019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}