What started out as festive time at the North Carolina Mountain State Fair in 2019 ended with 96 people hospitalized with Legionnaires’ disease. Four of them died.
The tragedy in Fletcher, North Carolina, made national headlines. Multiple victims filed suit after state health authorities found that the Legionella bacteria probably came from a spa company’s working hot tub display, according to court records and news reports.
“This outbreak most likely resulted from exposure to Legionella bacteria in aerosolized water from hot tubs on display in the Davis Event Center at the fair,” the North Carolina