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Ongoing monitoring of Legionella in Flint in the wake of the drinking water crisis


June 17, 2016

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Research presented at the American Society of Microbiology Microbe meeting suggests that microbial water quality issues of Flint, Michigan drinking water are improving, based on recent testing in March 2016, but that continued vigilance is in order. The research, performed by the Flint Water Study team at Virginia Tech, found that levels of DNA markers for Legionella have decreased throughout Flint since October 2015 before the water change.Full Story

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American Society for Microbiology

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