Two BAMC staff test positive for bacteria causing Legionnaires’ Disease

Two Brooke Army Medical Center staff members tested positive for bacteria linked to the fast-spreading type of pneumonia known as Legionnaires’ disease, the San Antonio Current in Texas reported.

The two staff members work in an administrative building, not the medical center’s hospital, according to the report, and workers in the building have been relocated.

The two cases qualify as an “outbreak,” BAMC officials said in a news release.

Legionella bacteria is rarely passed between people, and more often contracted from a source in the environment, such as a building with a contaminated water system, for example, and when people inhale contaminated mist or vapor,

In the most recent large outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, 12 people died in New York City in 2015, according to The New York Times.

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Two BAMC staff test positive for bacteria causing Legionnaires’ Disease

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Cmdr. Brett Johnson has been temporarily reassigned to the staff of Helicopter Sea Combat Wing Atlantic.

CTF-150 is one of four task forces now operating in the Mideast to counter maritime threats.

Dr. Lewis M. Duncan, who was put on leave following the 2020 incident, has since retired from the post-graduate college.

The 1960s-era design continues to transform.

“In the last 60 years, we’ve really focuses on isolated individuals,” but during large-scale maneuver warfare, units can become isolated just “by battlefield geometry," the Army's SERE school commander said.

Economic sanctions “clearly were not convincing to Russia in advance,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said. “It’s not clear anything would have been convincing to Russia in advance; I’m not going to try to get into the head of Vladimir Putin."

The deadly coronavirus outbreak at the LaSalle Veterans' Home in northern Illinois killed 36 veterans.

The smartphones and iPads were purchased as part of the VA's efforts to increase veterans' access to telehealth.

Victory Day is a rare event in the nation’s divisive post-Soviet history that is revered by all political players, and the Kremlin has used that sentiment to encourage patriotic pride and underline Russia’s role as a global power.

Meet the military spouse comedian who caught the eye of Jerry Seinfeld on this week’s episode of The Spouse Angle Podcast.

The launch comes days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his nuclear arsenal and threatened to use them against rivals.

Military Times reporter and Marine veteran Rachel Nostrant chronicles her time in Ukraine.

Fossil fuels aren’t just a vulnerability on the battlefield; they’re also a strategic straitjacket.

On social media, the “Ghost of Kyiv” was a military hero, an ace fighter pilot hailed for supposedly shooting down multiple Russian planes.

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