A new study has found that cooling towers on top of commercial buildings may be harmful to your health since they are breeding grounds many infected amoebas.

Sharon Berk and her colleagues at Tennessee Technological University looked at 40 cooling towers in hospitals, universities, and industries and 40 natural environments such as lakes, rivers, creeks, and ponds

Health officials say laboratory tests have confirmed three people in Volusia County have contracted Legionnaires' disease this year.

The Volusia County Health Department has not specified if any of these people died from the bacterial illness

Legionnaires Disease is being named as the likely cause for at-least seventeen deaths at a Toronto, Canada nursing home which has also sickened 70 residents and 18 workers.

The illness is a rare form of pneumonia that can only be contracted by inhaling water droplets contaminated by legionella bacteria and can't be spread from person to person

The mysterious illness that caused the deaths of 16 elderly people at a Toronto nursing home has been identified as Legionnaire's disease by health officials.

He adds, however, that, "Some people are fragile enough that they may still succumb to this

A mysterious respiratory illness at a Toronto nursing home claims six more lives Wednesday, raising the death toll to 16.

The cause of the outbreak at the Seven Oaks Home for the Aged remains unknown, although officials insist the illness is winding down and only confined to the nursing home