EXCLUSIVE: Confirmed Case of Legionnaires’ Disease at Ontario Military Base Prompts Building Demolition

EXCLUSIVE: Confirmed Case of Legionnaires’ Disease at Ontario Military Base Prompts Building Demolition
Reservists help pack military vehicles with boats and fuel at CFB Kingston in Kingston, Ont., on May 9, 2017. The Canadian Press/Lars Hagberg
Peter Wilson
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The Defence Department has confirmed that there was a case of Legionnaires’ disease at the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in Kingston, Ont., late last year, which contaminated a building to the point that there are now plans for it to be demolished.

The individual who contracted the disease was a civilian employee at the Canadian Armed Forces base, whose identity has not been released by Department of National Defence (DND) due to privacy reasons.