Legionnaires’ disease case at Missouri mental health center

FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) — State officials say a case of Legionnaires’ disease has been confirmed in a patient at a mental health center in Farmington. A spokeswoman for the Department of Mental Health says a patient from the Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center was taken to a hospital, which discovered the Legionnaires’ case on Wednesday. She says the 66-year-old man remains hospitalized Thursday in stable condition. The Department of Health and Senior Services was at the center Thursday conducting tests on the center’s water systems. Legionnaires’ disease is a serious form of pneumonia, which is generally spread through breathing in droplets of bacteria in water.