Protecting Yourself From Legionnaires' and Cyclosporiasis

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning, Well, what is going on with Legionnaires disease? What is going on with psychosporin with us today is doctor Mason Pimsler. He’s been working in the bronx and with health and hospitals and uh, he’s well, he’s gonna fill us in. Well, doctor, give us an update of what’s going on with it. People are concerned, Sony, get concerned.

0:25 Speaker 2 Yes, good morning John on this Sunday. Well, let me just put this out there. First of all, legionneers is out there. It’s really all around us. It really affects mostly people don’t have to be really scared of this because it affects the minority of people. It affects more the immune compromise people. It affects people sixty five and

0:50 older that have comobidities. It affects people with HIV as I said, the immunion comparence. So the general public, even if you come in contact with it, really will not get that sick. And Legionnaires comes from nineteen seventy six, there was an outbreak of severe pneumonia. Because that’s what legionneers is. It’s pneumonia. It’s a bacteria, it’s a bacteria

1:12 that causes pneumonia, and how they get the name the CDC. A doctor came up and discovered it because all these people, these veterans got together in Philadelphia and they got this pneumonia from this mist. And that’s what’s happening in New York City. In New York City, people are getting these legionnaires because on these buildings we have these old water

1:35 i’d say towers. They’re like exhaust pipes of your car to put it in that everyone has that has a car knows what the exhaust pipes are and what comes out of it. So on the tall buildings in Manhattan, we have these pipes that throw off these hot air that turns into mist and it’s like a water and

1:59 anyone that con tacks it. You can’t get it from person to person. So I want people to know that if they’re around, as opposed to COVID, which is a virus, not a bacteria, COVID, you can’t get it person to person.

2:13 It comes from a mist, so you have to be in contact with that mist. And also it comes from two ways. That you have internal plumbing in your apartments and say you take a shower, that myst can cause it too, but it’s going to cause it more in an immuno compromise person rather than a healthy person. Even

2:36 I’d say a geriatric person that is healthy should probably not get it as well. So I don’t think this is something like what they said with the aliens are coming, where we all have to run out and get very scared about this.

2:52 Speaker 1 So you don’t put I mean four people have died, so four or five they have, and I guess they weren’t bad health to begin with.

3:01 Speaker 2 Yes, they or they didn’t get the treatment that they needed. It’s treated just like you would treat a community acquired pneumonia with antibiotics, so everyone knows what an antibiotic is. It’s listening. You would treat it the same way and it would be highly treatable. The last case in New York City, and I’m going to focus this on New

3:22 York City right now. The last case in New York City was July fifteenth. As of today, no emergency room is reporting any cases since July fifteenth, and not just any new case, but anyone presenting themselves with symptoms that were already infected. But you are one hundred percent correct.

3:43 There people have died from it, like you just said four. But overall, overall it has been under control. And what they do is they’re cleaning these towers with something called bioside biocide compound that sterilizes these water towers. And I got this from a source at the City of Health today and they say it’s it’s William Fowler, who is

4:14 the pressed at Victory says it’s very much under control now. And I have the zip codes where in New York City if you’re living in them, where it’s mainly affecting the plumbing system, or where the last case of July fifteenth, and that’s one zero zero two eight, one zero one two eight and one zero zero seven to five. But

4:36 you can continue to drink tap water, you can bathe, you can shower, cook, use air conditioner, but you’s got to be cautious, got to be cautious.

4:46 Speaker 1 Now it is cyclosploring. Where does that come from?

4:50 Speaker 2 So there was a New York just to focus on New York with cyclosporn. We’re not considered one of the twenty seven states that the tailor led it. That’s originally it was stated that the tailor Lettuce And you would know this more than I would the manufacturing that does the lettuce. That’s where the cases were coming from in

5:14 New York, it was coming from more fruits, raspberry produce and that and now the FDA and you picked that up right away, John, and thank you for that. Is that the FDA has semi identified another source which I can’t find yet, and I’m going to try to track that down when we end this interview what that could be.

5:39 But I will say, like stores like yours have been because of the high hygienety, you know, the hygiena that you practice in your stores. That’s a big thing with the produce. So that’s why, like some of these bodegas, you’ve got to be very cautious on buying produce out there.

6:00 People that are listening here, you got not to sell your stories. But go to Dagastinea, go to Gristina’s, go to a major supermarket. Don’t go to the bodegas, please, because these produce can be infected with this and this is a very annoying disease. It’s really explosive diarrhea. You’re intestine to become paralytic. It’s not fun at all. It’s

6:26 not fun.

6:27 Speaker 1 Well, and thank you, thank you for the update on the uh uh you know cyclist Warren In on the legioneer’s disease, and let’s talk more often.

6:37 Speaker 2 Absolutely, you are a pleasure, John, Thank you so much, so much,