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According to Building Operating Management magazine, expert Victor Yu, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh; Chief, Infectious Disease Section, VA Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA disclosed that "Up to 70% of all buildings greater than three stories in the US may be contaminated with legionella."

Legionnaires' disease are the two words that no facilities manager, risk manager or building operations manager wants to hear. Most everyone remembers about the haunting images of the 1976 American Legion Convention in Philadelphia at which 220 became ill and 30 died. No building owner wants the Legionella bacteria stigma associated with their building. Cases of Legionnaires' disease can wreak havoc by creating emergency evaluations, emergency disinfection, negative reputations, bad publicity, reduced property values, legal liability and potentially huge expense.  

by Matt Knight and Laurie Simmons |  wtkr.com

Since 1973, sailors and soldiers battling drug and alcohol addictions have been coming to Nimitz Hall, building J-50, on Naval Station Norfolk.

Until June of 2011, it was home to the substance abuse rehabilitation program, also known as SARP.

Tracy Brown works as one of the program's many counselors.

"The reward is to see we have helped somebody, out of their addiction, their struggle, their stronghold they had in their lives, but then, at the same time, we are being made sick and ill."

Sick, Tracey says, because of a dirty little secret kept from staff and patients - that the Navy did not want the public to know.

"She said, do you know that's mold in there? I said no, this is mold? Yes!"

And lots of it, according to the Navy's own reports.

NewsChannel 3 even discovered the warnings given to Navy leaders about the dangers to both patients and staff.

"Majority of patients when I was moved to this office complained of some sort of illness."

But still, the chain of command continued to let... 

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by Lewis Turner | meteorologist and reporter for First Coast News

MIDDLEBURG, Fla. -- As the Black Creek's flood waters have now receded, residents are returning to find damaging black mold creeping into their homes.

"It's all in our air conditioning system and in our vents now," says Middleburg resident Michael Monsour.

Monsour and his wife Deborah watched as flood waters moved up into their backyard and nearly to the top of their ten foot tall deck.

"Our cars were totaled, but our insurance company came out and towed them, they've already cut us a check for them too," he said. But his main concern has now become the mold.

The Red Cross is...

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