telling everyone there's been an outbreak of legionnaires disease. hires a team of scientists from different universities across the state to investigate the outbreak. as we uncover in our film, these scientists and infectious disease experts felt that they were experiencing pretty consistent pushback by state officials in terms of what they could investigate. who they could talk to. i do not think that they felt, you know, for much for much of their investigation that they were given a full opportunity to do it right. >> why were they, i mean, what did they tell you in your documentary? this team of scientists about what should have been done and how their communication with the government, what was it like for them to try to do this investigation? >> it. >> it was really interesting. at the time these men and women were brought on to do this investigation, it is around the same time that the special prosecutor who was appointed by the attorney general, starting to amount to a criminal investigation. absolutely investigating the michigan health and h

river and return to detroit water.wi in mths, snyder and his top officials would address the legionnaires' outbreakhe governor called an environmental engineering professor at wayne state unersity. >> he said that the governor was about to go onstage to announce a gionnaires' disease outbreak, and he wanted to know whether or not i could determine if the chae in the water supply was the cause of the legionnaires' disease. and i basically told him that i thought i could pull together ao team t at this, but that i would have to make some calls. and he said, "no, no, no. the governor is going on in, like, 15 minutes. uti need an answer in 15 m." ♪ nk >> well, tou for coming today. i'm going to share information th has been sharsh with th health-care community the past, but hasn't really be put outo the public. over the course of 2014 and 2015, 20 saw a spi in legionnaires' disease. i believe the nuers for the preceding years, before 2014, we had six cases, 11 cases, 13 a case eight cases. in 2014, we had 45 cases. and then in 2015, there were 42 cases. >> i'd been writing about flint veter for more th

and second of all, if the ste e believed that there was a legionnaires' outbreak in every du to do something people about it.ha that's notthe state did. >> narrator: mcldeclin to be in, citing ongoing lawsuits by legionnaires' victims, but pointed out that the hospital gets its water from the city.ir they dr. stout to provide for and prevent lela.p them test >> somewhere around 30% or so of cases had absolutely n healthcare association. that meanshewere never, not only at mclaren, but never at any of the other hospitals, either.ei t argument that the problem is the hospital doesn't hold weight. >> narrator: shawn mcelmurry anc his tee to the same conclusion, and in early 2018, publhed their findings in a peer-reviewed journal. >> the outbreak is associate with the change in the water supply. when they switched to the flint ver, they didn't properly treat the water. and as it went through the distribution system, they also had reacons and things that... th corroding pipes. and so there are pockets of e city where you had high amounts of iron, low chlorine, high h organimatter. and in those pl

legionnaires is a severe fatal form of pneumonia. the symptoms you might experience are similar to pneumonia for good if there is an outbreak of legionnaires the experts and have said that if it goes unannounced in the medical community is not alerted and the public is not alerted it is very likely a lot of these cases could go sediagnosed. in that event patients would just be diagnosed with pneumonia and they may be treated with antibiotics used for typical bacterial pneumonia and those likely will not work against legionnaires. which is a very severe bacteria and require specific ggtreatment. in order for doctors to know to test for and diagnose and treat it they have to know there's an outbreak going on.n. once they realized there was never an investigation done by the county into the outbreak it becamest apparent likely there were more cases and were officially reported. officially there were 12 deaths and 90 cases and then we figured out whether or not there was an increase of pneumonia death in the city at the same time of legionnaires to determine if that scope could have been larger. >> have those cases been reviewed by officials s

outbreak. there is no way of knowing who or if any of them may have died of an undiagnosed case of legionnairesing the outbreak of legionnaires' disease, and in certain pockets of the city we found confirmed cases of legionnaires' disease in the same neighborhood, confirmed pneumonia deaths. in one neighborhood we have a mile long, we've got three cases of legionnaires' and six pneumonia deaths. >> wow. >> that is consistent with the notion that, you know, some of these cases of pneumonia may have been undiagnosed cases of legionnaires'. >> one of the things i think has gripped the country about what happened in flint is not just the tragedy of the city being lead poisoned and what that means for the kids there. this prospect of legionnaires' associated deaths makes it all that much more stark, and there is this issue of the government's own behavior here. i am struck in your documentary about the prospect that doctors knowing to look for this might have been the difference between people being alive today and being dead. >> that's right. >> that they needed to know that this was something they

physicians had the higher level of awareness about the legionnaires disease outbreak earlier than theyimately led to fewer cases and fewer deaths due to legionnaires. >> the best number they came up with 70. and that last point is key. if the doctors had been warned to watch out for legionnaires, fewer people might have died of it, and a lot of people were dying in flint at that time. this new documentary from "frontline" is a second report done by a different team using different data and different methodology to reach the conclusion there were dozens of unexplained deaths from pneumonia during the flint water crisis. the most likely number according to frontline is 70, 70 people dead. there is of course a lot we don't know. the water switch coincided with an uptick in the flu, and maybe that's what caused more people in flint to get pneumonia and die and not legionnaires from the water. maybe it was just a coincidence. who can say. but flint is now more than five years into this crisis. now with a new report of 70 unexpected deaths, any one of which may have been caused by what is in

governor finally comes forward a year and a half after the outbreak begins he tells everybody that there has been an out, rick of legionnaires -- outbreak of vision is disease and hires researchers from universities across the states to investigate the outbreak. but as we uncovered in our firm, these scientists and experts felt that they were experiencing bytty consistent push back state officials in terms of what they could investigate, the scope of their investigation, who they could talk to, what water they could test. i don't think they thought for much of their investigation that they were given a full opportunity to do it right. you inhat did they tell your documentary, this team of scientists, about what should have been done, and how their communication with the government, what was it like for them to try to do this investigation? guest: it was really interesting , because at the time that these men and women were brought on to do the investigation, is around the same time that this special prosecutor appointed by the attorney general was starting to investigation.l and he is absolutely investigating the michigan de

for fever or nausea or any thank you may have a cold or the flu if you know visited the outbreak of legionnaires' disease in your community you might go to the emergency a lot quicker. >> host: you profiled flint residents who got sick during this outbreak of legionnaires' disease and some connected her illness with that and she has since passed away and i want to show our viewers a little bit from the documentary featuring jasmine right. >> i've been doing a breathing treatment to open on my airways and lungs. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the 45th president of the united states the company by number 42. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] [cheering and applause] >> thank you very much everybody. the sandman. my wife asked me why are you the sandman just tell me and our first lady and i said you put the batter to sleep. right? the sandman. a lot of people don't know that but the yankee fans know that. we watched you for a long time and thank you all for coming. the first lady and i are delighted to welcome you to the white house today we present our nation's highest honor, the presidential medal of freedom to americ

>>for your health a deadly outbreak of legionnaires disease strikes a southeastern part of the united states the north carolina department of public health has confirmed 25 cases, including one death. this outbreak appears to be linked to water rise at the nc mountain state fair and fletcher symptoms include severe cough, a muscle aches fever, shortness of breath and headaches. the disease can typically be treated with antibiotics but people over the age of 50 or those who have a weekend-long so weakened immune systems are at greater risk. according to a 2015 cdc report about one in 10. one in 10 effect infected with legionnaires does not survive. crime for there's a program in the east bay bridging the gap between law enforcement and the african american community. you will hear from one of the organizers and and if you are streaming us on kron on the news continues during the ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ so that early retirement we planned. it's going ok? great. now i'm spending more time with the kids. i'm introducing them to crab. crab!? they love it. so, you mentioned that that money we set aside.

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