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Guggenheim museum in New York City tests positive for legionnaires’ disease
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2026
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Our infrastructure is really falling apart when even the buildings start getting legionnaires disease.
This is probably a result of decreased public health funding. Same with the increasingly frequent cyclosporiasis outbreaks. Public health departments go out and track the sources of these diseases then give information back to CDC to coordinate elsewhere. Honestly, epidemiology might be the only area of modern medicine I'd consider mature, and we're just giving up on it... Because people don't believe in small things they can't see.
On the up side, this being detected is a good sign for public health funding. Still, prevention is generally better.