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JOHNS HOPKINS RELEASES FINDINGS ABOUT LEGIONELLA AND ELECTRONIC FAUCETS
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Johns Hopkins facilities engineers removed more than 100 electronic faucets and selected manual faucets for its new clinical building after finding Legionella in a higher percentage of electronic faucets than manual faucets over a a seven-week study period in December 2008 to January 2009. Hopkins released information about the study on March 31st and presented the findings at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) meeting in April (see http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/latest_hands_free_electronic_water_faucets_found_to_be_hindrance_not_help_in_hospital_infection_control).

A few days later, the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control & Epidemiology (APIC) issued a joint statement about electronic faucets and the Hopkins study (see http://www.apic.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PracticeGuidance/ConstructionIssues1/APIC_ASHE_Statement_electronic_faucets.pdf).

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