The Stockton facility is a hospital and a prison
California corrections officials are investigating a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at a prison in Stockon after an inmate from there died at an outside hospital, according to an article on the Sacramento Bee.
The California Health Care Facility inmate tested positive in a post-death analysis for legionella.
Another patient tested positive after CHCF tested 16 more inmates.
The Stockton facility is a hospital and a prison.
April 3, 2019
Topic Area: Infection Control
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