{"id":7335,"date":"2024-08-14T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7335"},"modified":"2024-08-14T06:57:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:57:03","slug":"what-is-legionnaires-disease-and-how-does-it-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/14\/what-is-legionnaires-disease-and-how-does-it-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Legionnaires\u2019 disease, and how does it spread?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2024\/08\/13\/legionnaires-disease-symptoms-cause-treatment\/\">Washington Post<\/a> Five cases of Legionnaires\u2019 disease in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhhs.nh.gov\/news-and-media\/dhhs-identifies-five-people-diagnosed-legionnaires-disease-after-visiting-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Hampshire<\/a>&nbsp;this summer have raised questions about how the infection spreads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legionnaires\u2019 is a serious form of pneumonia caused by the bacteria&nbsp;<em>Legionella<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe&nbsp;<em>Legionella<\/em>&nbsp;bacteria likes water. It is spread from contaminated air conditioning cooling towers, hot tubs, decorative fountains, misting machines and the like,\u201d said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vumc.org\/health-policy\/person\/william-schaffner-md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">William Schaffner<\/a>, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University. \u201cSome cases are acquired during international travel by exposure to contaminated air conditioning in hotels abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We asked health-care experts some commonly asked questions. What do we know about the Legionnaires\u2019 cases?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Hampshire health officials said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhhs.nh.gov\/news-and-media\/dhhs-identifies-five-people-diagnosed-legionnaires-disease-after-visiting-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>\u00a0Monday that five people have been diagnosed with Legionnaires\u2019 disease. They may have been exposed to water droplets contaminated with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/legionella\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Legionella<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the bacteria that causes the disease \u2014 from a cooling tower behind a resort in Lincoln, N.H.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2024\/08\/13\/legionnaires-disease-symptoms-cause-treatment\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Five cases of Legionnaires\u2019 disease in&nbsp;New Hampshire&nbsp;this summer have raised questions about how the infection spreads. Legionnaires\u2019 is a serious form of pneumonia caused by the bacteria&nbsp;Legionella. \u201cThe&nbsp;Legionella&nbsp;bacteria likes water. It is spread from contaminated air conditioning cooling towers, hot tubs, decorative fountains, misting machines and the like,\u201d said&nbsp;William Schaffner, a professor of [&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-7335","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\/7335","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=7335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7336,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}