{"id":2499,"date":"2019-05-14T14:27:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2019-05-14T14:27:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:27:49","slug":"legionnaires-occurrences-have-experienced-a-fivefold-increase-since-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/legionnaires-occurrences-have-experienced-a-fivefold-increase-since-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Legionnaires Occurrences Have Experienced a Fivefold Increase Since 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the link below points out, experts are unsure as to why there has been such a drastic increase in Legionnaires.\u00a0 Infections by other clinically significant waterborne pathogens that can cause infections include but are not limited to <em>Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Burkholderia, Stenotrophomonas, nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM)<\/em>, and <em>Fusarium<\/em>, have also increased dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>Legionella and these other environmental-source pathogens are collectively called <em>Opportunistic Premise Plumbing Pathogens (OPPPs)<\/em>. \u00a0To date, attention has focused primarily on Legionnaires\u2019 disease, because it\u2019s the only <em>OPPP<\/em> infection that legally must be reported, but other <em>OPPP<\/em> infections are gaining prominence.<\/p>\n<p>Pollution insurance policies offer financial assurance in protecting insureds for OPPPs liability.\u00a0 Pollution insurance policies, besides being more affordable than other forms of financial assurance also cover legal fees, first party clean up, third party property damage, third party bodily injury, third party business income, engineering fees, disposal costs, specialists to assist you in handling a claim and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses with exposure to OPPPs need to have an environmental financial assurance plan in place.\u00a0 Keep in mind there are many other contaminants that are gaining notoriety, i.e. PFAS, PFOS, Glysophate, Formaldehyde, Silica, Welding Rod Fumes\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisherphillips.com\/Workplace-Safety-and-Health-Law-Blog\/legionnaires-disease-and-other-workplace-infectious-diseases\">https:\/\/www.fisherphillips.com\/Workplace-Safety-and-Health-Law-Blog\/legionnaires-disease-and-other-workplace-infectious-diseases<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the link below points out, experts are unsure as to why there has been such a drastic increase in Legionnaires.\u00a0 Infections by other clinically significant waterborne pathogens that can cause infections include but are not limited to Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Burkholderia, Stenotrophomonas, nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), and Fusarium, have also increased dramatically. Legionella and these other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/legionnaires-occurrences-have-experienced-a-fivefold-increase-since-2000\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legionnaires Occurrences Have Experienced a Fivefold Increase Since 2000<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-featured","category-risk","category-webinars","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}