Medical Minute: Legionnaires’ Disease At Lockheed Martin

In this “Medical Minute” segment, WABE senior reporter Jim Burress and medical analyst Dr. Ford Vox talk about reported cases of Legionnaires’ disease associated with employees of Lockheed Martin in Marietta.

Legionnaires’ may be the culprit behind 10 percent of all pneumonia cases, but it isn’t often suspected. This bacteria lives in the soil too but it rarely causes illness that way. We’ve provided the means for it to grow and become a problem; modern plumbing and air conditioning systems can help the bug breed in biofilms and then spread them into fine mists that we breathe in. Listen to learn more.

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