34 Dead, and Nobody Knew Why: The Hotel on Broad Street
In July 1976, 34 people died after a convention at a Philadelphia hotel. It took six months to find the organism. The source was never proved.
A Halloween special: the Bellevue-Stratford, five months of failed theories, and the cooling tower everyone blamed. Then the Bronx in 2015, where genome sequencing closed the link, New York's new 31-day testing rule, and the CDC finding that 85% of the outbreaks it reviewed had maintenance gaps.
In this episode:
- Find out whether your building has a written water management programme under ASHRAE 188, and who owns it
- Pull twelve months of cooling…
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