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Another Nursing Home Resident Contract Legionnaires' Disease

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published July 19, 2013 at 6:47 AM EDT

There's still no word of the source of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak at a Reynoldsburg nursing home.Franklin County health officials say the number of cases at the Wesley Ridge Retirement Center is up to 17 after a 92-year-old man was admitted to a hospital. Two people have died from the outbreak of the water-borne illness.
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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