Hot tub display blamed Legionnaires' disease outbreak in North Carolina

Monday, October 7, 2019
FLETCHER, North Carolina (WPVI) -- North Carolina health officials think a hot tub display at a state fair was the source of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak that killed one person and made 124 others sick.

People started getting sick about a week after the Mountain State Fair in Fletcher, near Asheville.
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They believe people breathed in Legionella bacteria from mist from the bubbling water in the hot tubs inside the exposition center.



Health teams found some bacteria in a hot tub.
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Investigators also found the bacteria in a sink in the women's room, but that couldn't have infected so many people.

State health teams are working with the CDC to track down the cause.
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