U.S. Senator for New York, Charles Schumer, took action in developing a plan to help prevent future Legionnaires’ disease cases from popping up in Upstate New York. As a result of this deadly disease claiming the lives of more than a dozen New Yorkers, Senator Schumer is pushing to increase federal funding to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The reason for increasing the federal funding to the CDC would be to further research the bacteria and the pneumonia it causes. A huge part of this movement would be the national standards developed for testing cooling towers and the impact that would have on the water treatment industry.
Learn more about the preventative efforts being pushed by Senator Schumer in his letters to the CDC and Senate.
