RE: legionaires disease

["Taylor, Douglas B" <Dbtaylor@THEITGROUP.COM>]

In my opinion, calling an air-conditioning system heat exchanger a "cooling

tower" is quite a stretch.  For those interested, more information on

Legionnaire's Disease can be found at

http://www.multiline.com.au/~mg/legion1.html



Doug Taylor





-----Original Message-----

From: dkosloff1 [mailto:dkosloff1@EMAIL.MSN.COM]

Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 10:53 AM

To: Norman Cohen; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: legionaires disease





Cooling towers come in many shapes and sizes.  The cooling tower that led to

the initial outbreak of Legionaires disease was a small one on the roof of

the Ben Franklin Hotel in Phililadelphia.  The bacteria liked the warm water

in the cooling tower.  The uncertainty was how the contaminated mist from

the cooling tower got into the conventioneers lungs.   I don't think this is

a problem in large natural-draft cooling towers.  There may be a potential

problem with smaller mechanical-draft cooling towers, similar to the one

that burned down at Brown's Ferry.



Don Kosloff dkosloff1@msn.com

 2910 Main Street

Perry OH 44081



----- Original Message -----

From: "Norman Cohen" <ncohen12@HOME.COM>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:04 AM



In fact I was sure that the disease started in Philly at the Ben Franklin

Hotel at a legionairres convention. Thats why I was surprised to see a

reference to cooling towers causing the disease.

>

> "Flanigan, Floyd" wrote:

>

> > As to the legionaire's issue:The desease got it's name from an American

Legion Post down wind from a cooling tower which bred the bacteria which

causes the desease.



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