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03/05/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Flint’s lead-contaminated water caused deadly outbreak of respiratory disease that killed 12, says new report

Striking findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and mBio reveal just how deadly the the Flint, Michigan water crisis was. According to the new data, the contamination prompted a Legionnaires’ outbreak in the area which killed 12 people and infected 80 more. Scientists confirmed that from 2014 to 2015, the […]

03/16/2017 / By News Editors

Flint official dodges jail time for concealing water contamination that killed 12 people … only has to write apology letter

A Michigan district court judge ordered that Corinne Miller, the former director of epidemiology at the state’s Department of Health and Human Services, publicly apologize to the residents of Flint for withholding information about the presence of the Legionella bacteria, the microbe that causes Legionnaires’ disease, in the city’s drinking water. (Article by Tyler Durden republished from […]

12/06/2016 / By outbreaknews

Flint’s water crisis turns into bloody bacterial disease outbreak from lack of showering, washing hands

The tainted water crisis in Flint, MI., has gone from monumentally bad – to monumentally worse. CNN is reporting that health officials have discovered an infectious bacterial disease known as Shigellosis, which is capable of producing bloody diarrhea and fever, and is spread by poor hygiene and lack of hand-washing. County health officials told the […]

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