One tourist has died and at least two others have become sick after staying at the Epic Hotel in downtown Miami and health officials think its a rare type of pneumonia called Legionnaire's Disease.County and state officials say that they hotel installed a powerful water filter that removed almost all the chlorine from its city supplied tap water and that this encouraged bacterial growth.
Is this a case of luxury gone wrong? Officials seem to think so. The county's top epidemiologist says that the hotel installed the powerful filtration unit to enhance the quality of its tap water.
To fix the problem, the hotel will adjust its water system so that incoming city water bypasses its special filter and health officials plan to temporarily triple the amount of chlorine normally used to stave off bacterial growth.
Yep, chlorine is necessary guys, I could even learn to love it. Next time someone moans at me that they drink bottled water because they don't like the taste of chlorine, I'll just politely say 'google Epic Hotel and water.'
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