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Legionnaires’ disease was linked to a tower but it took agency two weeks to find specific one.
By Miguel Otárola Star Tribune FEBRUARY 18, 2017 — 10:43PM
It took weeks for the Minnesota Department of Health to find the source of a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Hopkins that killed one person and sickened 23 others last year.
Now a state representative for the west metro suburb wants to make sure it never takes that long again to figure out where an outbreak began.
State Rep. Cheryl Youakim, DFL-Hopkins, introduced a bill earlier this month that would create a state registry of cooling towers, often the source of widespread cases of the respiratory disease.
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