Legionnaires’ confirmed in dead Calif. prison inmate

The Stockton facility is a hospital and a prison


California corrections officials are investigating a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at a prison in Stockon after an inmate from there died at an outside hospital, according to an article on the Sacramento Bee.

The California Health Care Facility inmate tested positive in a post-death analysis for legionella.

Another patient tested positive after CHCF tested 16 more inmates.

The Stockton facility is a hospital and a prison.

Read the article.



April 3, 2019


Topic Area: Infection Control


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