{"id":23763,"date":"2017-04-07T09:44:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=23763"},"modified":"2017-04-07T09:44:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:44:05","slug":"kennett-high-closed-after-legionella-found-in-boiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=23763","title":{"rendered":"Kennett High closed after legionella found in boiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/KHSlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3696\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/KHSlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a>KENNETT SQUARE \u2013 Kennett High School was closed Friday after school officials found legionella bacteria in the school&#8217;s hot water system during routine testing, according to a letter shared with the school community.<\/p>\n<p>The legionella bacteria was behind the 1976 outbreak of Legionnaire&#8217;s Disease during an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. The water-born bacteria can cause severe respiratory infection if not treated.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>School district officials are working with the Chester County Health Department and have contracted with an environmental remediation firm to eliminate the bacteria from the water system. The school&#8217;s showers and the spigot in the boiler room that tested positive will be shut down until remediation and testing of the system is complete, expected to be about two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2013 Kennett High School was closed Friday after school officials found legionella bacteria in the school&#8217;s hot water system during routine testing, according to a letter shared with the school community. The legionella bacteria was behind the 1976 outbreak of Legionnaire&#8217;s Disease during an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. The water-born bacteria can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6518,79,8743],"class_list":["post-23763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-kennett-high-school","tag-legionella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23764,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions\/23764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}