Preventing Legionnaires' Disease: Frontline Tools for Environmental Health Practitioners

Environmental health practitioners play a critical role in the prevention, identification, and mitigation of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks. Over the last 20 years, Legionnaires' disease outbreaks have increased significantly and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) contin...

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Published inJournal of environmental health Vol. 83; no. 8; pp. 32 - 34
Main Authors Clopper, Benjamin, Kunz, Jasen, Hannapel, Elizabeth
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Denver National Environmental Health Association 01.04.2021
Subjects
Causes of
Control
Cooling
Disease control
Disease prevention
Drinking water
Environmental health
Epidemics
Health aspects
Health care facilities
Health services
Identification and classification
Immunization
Industry standards
Laws, regulations and rules
Legionella
Legionellosis
Legionnaire's disease
Legionnaires disease
Management
Medicaid
Medicare
Outbreaks
Prevention
Public health
Respiratory diseases
Statistics
United States
Water
Water management
United States
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Summary:Environmental health practitioners play a critical role in the prevention, identification, and mitigation of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks. Over the last 20 years, Legionnaires' disease outbreaks have increased significantly and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to learn about the disease and how to prevent it (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, 2019; CDC, 2019). For example, CDC investigations show almost all (9 in 10) Legionnaires' disease outbreaks were caused by problems preventable with more effective building water management. Water management programs have become an important industry standard and are now required in healthcare facilities nationwide. Here, information on frontline tools for environmental health practitioners is presented.
ISSN:0022-0892