Disneyland shuts cooling towers after Legionnaires outbreak sickens 12
Cooling towers provide cold water for various uses at Disneyland and give off a vapour or mist that could have carried the Legionnella bacteria
Disneyland has shut down two cooling towers after people who visited the southern California theme park came down with Legionnaires’ disease.
A dozen cases of the bacterial lung infection were discovered about three weeks ago, the Orange County Health Care Agency announced Friday.
The patients, ranging in age from 52 to 94, lived or had spent time in Anaheim, and nine had visited Disneyland in September.
One patient, who had not visited the park, has died, the agency said.
There haven’t been any new cases linked to Anaheim since September, the agency said.
“There is no known ongoing risk associated with this outbreak,” the agency said.