Metropolitan Museum of Art previously ordered to take action due to Legionella
Unlike COVID-19 and monkeypox, doctors say this is not transmitted from person to person, only from breathing in vapor containing the bacteria called Legionella, which grows in warm water.
The ailment has sickened 12 people since July 11, the county said. The reported fatality was the first one identified in the county "for several years."
Disneyland has shut down two cooling towers after people who visited the Southern California theme park came down with Legionnaires' disease.
A new report just released says dirty cooling towers may be to blame for Legionnaires' Disease outbreak at San Quentin State Prison.
Visiting time for family members of prisoners at San Quentin in Marin County has been halted this weekend as health and prison officials investigate a case of Legionnaires disease.