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Legionnaires kills patient at Pittsburgh VA hospital

Legionnaires' kills Pittsburgh VA hospital patient
December 1, 2012
By Sean D. Hamill
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System declared Friday that the water system at its University Drive hospital in Oakland is now clear of Legionnaires' disease-causing bacteria that has killed at least one patient.

At the same time, however, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that while it has only confirmed that five cases of Legionnaires' originated in the hospital's water system, there have been another 24 cases of Legionnaires' reported at the hospital since January 2011 -- eight cases in which patients picked up the disease from outside the hospital and another 16 that the VA is not sure where patients contracted the disease.

One of the five who got Legionnaires' at the hospital has died, and the family of another patient who died thinks he may have contracted the disease at the hospital.
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