LITE 98.7 » hot tub illness http://lite987.com The Best Variety Of Yesterday And Today Sat, 25 May 2013 22:59:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 123 Fall Ill After Night In Playboy Hot Tub http://lite987.com/123-fall-ill-after-night-in-playboy-hot-tub/ http://lite987.com/123-fall-ill-after-night-in-playboy-hot-tub/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:27:05 +0000 Mark Richards http://lite987.com/?p=8990 Last February, Hugh Hefner and his crew held a fundraising event at the notorious Playboy mansion.

And this one resulted in over 100 people reporting pneumonia and flu-like symptoms after the evening’s shindig came to a close.

Two months later, Los Angeles Health officials finally know what may have caused the outbreak: the Legionella bacterium, a potentially lethal bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease. It was located in a sample of water taken from the Playboy’s famed hot tub.

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