For the past 5 weeks, I have been very closely watching the emergence of very strange viruses and diseases that have been effecting a wide range of people, all over the country.  I have documented each one individually, but the list keeps growing.  Here is a short list to get you up to date:

1.  Pertussis – “Whooping Cough”
2.  Fatal rash caused by staph infection
3.  “Flesh Eating Bacteria”, also a staph infection
4.  The Bubonic Plague
5.  Ebola
6.  Capnocytophaga – Woman lost hands and feet from dog saliva
7.  Untreatable Gonorrhea
8.  Kid died from a brain destroying ameoba, found in a lake
9.  West Nile Virus
10.  Hantavirus
11.  Rabies
12.  Typhus

And lucky thirteen is the recent outbreak of…

13.  Legionnaires Disease!  Two guests of the Marriott in downtown Chicago died, and a few others came down with the disease.  While this is not fatal to those with healthy immune systems, it can have up to a 30% mortality rate.  This is the 13th strange outbreak in the past year, and this one happened at a very upscale hotel in downtown Chicago.

Cycle through my “Viruses, Bacteria, Plagues, and Disease” category to follow all the original reports.  I will be updating as more information comes in.

Read the Legionnaires article here.