{"id":131484,"date":"2022-10-03T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=131484"},"modified":"2022-10-01T12:44:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T16:44:06","slug":"jb-san-antonio-reports-legionella-in-barracks-moves-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=131484","title":{"rendered":"JB San Antonio reports Legionella in barracks, moves patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The virus that causes Legionnaire’s has been found in a barracks on Joint Base San Antonio<\/a>, in Texas.\u00a0 The post announced they are moving about 150 patients from the base\u2019s Liberty Barracks after legionella was discovered in the water system.<\/p>\n

The service members at Liberty Barracks are all temporary residents undergoing treatment at Brooke Army Medical Center. Each service member is being moved to different dorms and barracks based on their individual needs. Meanwhile, Liberty Barracks will undergo a process called \u201csuper-chlorination,\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n

After 72 hours, the water will be tested again to look for legionella or residual chlorine in the plumbing system. There have been no known cases of Legionnaire\u2019s Disease or other legionella-based infections among residents or staff at Liberty Barracks, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

Just last year, Liberty Barracks, which houses wounded and injured service members as they receive treatment, was evacuated due to legionella found in the plumbing. The building has gone through the process of super-chlorination and regular testing since then.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is sort of a good-news\/bad-news thing: the barracks are designed to hold up to 360 and is largely empty, but the bad news is that with so many empty rooms, water can sit stagnant in the plumbing and nasties can grow in it.<\/p>\n

Kind of surprising to me that there isn’t a protocol to PMCS the plumbing system – might waste some water in the process by flushing every toilet and running every faucet\u00a0 daily, but you would think that would be better than this mess. It does seem to be a pattern, though, that military barracks and quarters all over the country seem to have more than their share of mold, diseases, and shoddy maintenance. Almost as if subcontracting their maintenance to civilian contractors might be a bad thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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