Legionnaire's Disease Kills One, 300 Relocated From Epic Hotel In Miami

MIAMI — About 300 guests have been moved from a luxury Miami hotel after Legionnaires' disease struck at least three former guests since October.

Health officials said Monday that one former guest at the EPIC Hotel died at the end of October after leaving for a cruise. The other two guests fell ill in November.

Investigators found the hotel installed a water filter powerful enough to remove chlorine from its city-supplied water, encouraging bacterial growth.

Current guests were sent to nearby hotels Saturday to prevent potential contact with the bacterial disease that can be transmitted by contaminated water vapor.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates between 8,000 to 18,000 patients are hospitalized each year with the disease.

Comments

[goodog]

02:02 AM on 12/15/2009

"Legionnai­re's Disease Kills 1 At Luxury Miami Hotel, 300 Relocated"

ghosts of Gerald Ford

[KriTiKiT]

11:49 PM on 12/14/2009

huh...

sound fishy...

like this should be looked into further... aerosols a bio weapon...
www.global­research.c­a/index.ph­p?context=­va&aid=163­57 check out this jazz with a cut and paste it blew my hair back...

[goodog]

02:03 AM on 12/15/2009

the foil protects.

[Sing Out and Slap Iron]

10:10 PM on 12/14/2009

Wow! I've lived in Miami my entire life and have never heard of this place.

[oberflaechlich]

08:27 PM on 12/14/2009

It's not the water filter...m­any countries don't chlorinate their water and are perfectly fine. It's the AC. I used to work as an engineer at the Mandarin in Miami, and we had to check the units daily. And they were cleaned at regular intervals. I mean super hyper cleaned. Someone may have been downwind from some unsanitary radiator steam. Who was the dche that implied this water filter hypothesis­?

[Sing Out and Slap Iron]

10:19 PM on 12/14/2009

Now I see why you USED to work at the Mandarin.

[sizogee]

12:44 AM on 12/15/2009

Where is the poster wrong? It sounds plausible to me.

[anyoneoutthere]

01:03 AM on 12/15/2009

Good point

[TXfemmom]

07:39 PM on 12/14/2009

If it is because they installed that filter, they are SOOOOO BUSTED.

[HarrietteTheSpy]

07:22 PM on 12/14/2009

Air conditioni­ng in general can make people sick.

[mathme]

06:48 PM on 12/14/2009

I'd like to see a larger picture of that pool... it looks pretty awesome, aesthetica­lly.

[SILVANUS]

06:24 PM on 12/14/2009

They used this one before, in '81 in San Francisco. Connect the dots.

[WiltonDiary]

06:46 PM on 12/14/2009

Who is "they?"

[anyoneoutthere]

01:05 AM on 12/15/2009

"Nobody knows...Th­at's why they call them 'they'"
(Mel Gibson, Conspiracy Theory)

[Jennifer Astle]

06:48 PM on 12/14/2009

You imply conspiracy­...?

[BigShotBob]

04:42 PM on 12/14/2009

So . . . replace the water filter.

[ConcernedAboutRFuture]

04:40 PM on 12/14/2009

Dear Headline Writer:

Here is an apparently rarely explored punctuatio­n mark ; ....... it's called a semi-colon­. It allows you to have two different thoughts in one sentence..­.... kind of like what you're trying to do... but you're coming off more like FOX than a credible news source.

Please take English 101 again.

Thank you.

[HarrietteTheSpy]

07:24 PM on 12/14/2009

A lot of writers loath the semi-colon by the way, many great writers. Had no problem with the headline here.

[BenevolentHighlighter]

03:45 PM on 12/14/2009

Saw this video in bio class about legionella­...VERY informativ­e

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=-MCcydIzV­t0

[alextnoa]

03:31 PM on 12/14/2009

Did anyone else read this and think, "Please let this be Arthur Kade."

Am I a bad person for thinking that?

[Peridolius]

03:07 PM on 12/14/2009

Is there a rhesus monkey with a PC writing your headlines?

[LADawson]

03:04 PM on 12/14/2009

Okay, that is a really, really bad headline. I realize there's a space in there, but if you look at "1, 300" really quickly, you think "Damn, it killed 1,300 people!?"

[aurora50]

03:06 PM on 12/14/2009

My take also.

[mathme]

06:48 PM on 12/14/2009

Definitely should have been a semicolon.

[Nmsmiami]

03:00 PM on 12/14/2009

How can this dog in the manger Lieberman look at himself in the mirror without a lot of self loathing?
From the disaster of putting him on the Gore ticket to watching him at the side of McCain have we
learned nothing about this snake? There is no there there-he is out for Joe and will do whatever
it takes to make him a "player"-u­gh-no scruples, no conscience­, no nothing-sa­y it ain't so Joe!

[BigShotBob]

04:41 PM on 12/14/2009

Are you in the right thread?

[WiltonDiary]

06:46 PM on 12/14/2009

LOL NO

[cheeriogirl]

10:59 PM on 12/14/2009

Not the right thread, but TOTALLY on target!