A recent report, published in a federal health journal, reveals a deadly bacterial illness, commonly seen in people taking antibiotics, appears to be growing more common - even in patients not taking the medication

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

The city of Toronto is facing another health crisis just three-years after battling the deadly SARS Virus. The mystery illness has claimed ten lives so far and has left nearly ninety ill in area nursing homes.

Physcians say patients are falling ill and dying within 2-3 days after contracting the mystery virus