When water stagnates in pipes, harmful metals and bacteria can accumulate and make people sick. Buildings that were shut down for weeks during the pandemic may be at risk.
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Office buildings have been left mostly empty for weeks amid the coronavirus pandemic, leaving standing water in pipes where harmful organisms can grow. What happens when those buildings reopen?
Lurking in the garden are some nasty bacteria with the potential to cause you serious harm.
Should the public be worried about the recent outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in Melbourne’s CBD?
Doxycycline is an antibiotic drug that kills a wide, weird and wonderful range of bugs that are often difficult to treat with other antibiotics.
The recall of hired home-birthing pools after a baby contracted Legionnaires’ disease will inevitably lead some women to worry about having a water birth at home. While the incidence is rare, it is worth…
A researcher has literally grown evidence to suggest the bacterium that causes the potentially-fatal Legionnaires’ disease…
Every few weeks or months we see another outbreak of the potentially deadly legionella bacteria. Today, it’s a regional South Australian hospital, where 36 aged residents have been exposed to a contaminated…
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Adjunct Associate Professor School of Biology, Flinders University
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Professor of Civil, Environmental & Ecological Engineering, Director of the Healthy Plumbing Consortium and Center for Plumbing Safety, Purdue University
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Research Scientist, Virginia Tech
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Director of Programs for Family, Child and Psychosocial Health. Lead Midwife for Education., University of Southampton
