Legionella bacteria detected in western Queensland hospitals

By Steven Trask
Updated November 14 2018 - 2:31pm, first published 1:22pm
Blackall Hospital, where Legionella bacteria were detected in 25 water samples.
Blackall Hospital, where Legionella bacteria were detected in 25 water samples.

Bacteria that can cause potentially-lethal Legionnaires' disease have been detected in water sources at a number of hospitals in rural Queensland. 

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