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Flint’s Lead-Poisoned Water Also Carried A Deadly Bacteria

A new study links 80% of Flint’s Legionnaires’ cases in 2014 and 2015 to the city’s bad water. The Michigan Health Department disputes these findings.

The lead-poisoned water that flowed into Flint homes at the peak of the crisis three years ago carried another deadly threat: Legionella bacteria that triggered an outbreak, sickening 90 people and killing at least 12 over two years. 

In the months after Flint’s noxious water drew national attention, Michigan public health officials said that it would be impossible to know if the bacterial outbreak — which happened during the same months the city switched its water supply to the Flint River — had been caused by the water itself. 

But a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes the strongest case yet that Flint River water was the source of at least 80% of the Legionnaires’ cases that occurred in 2014 and 2015.

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