Disneyland Shuts Down 2 Cooling Towers After Isolated Cases Of Legionnaires' Disease Hit Visitors

Disneyland has shut down two cooling towers after people who visited the southern california theme park came down with legionnaires disease.

The orange county health care agency says a dozen cases of the bacterial illness were discovered about three weeks ago . all the patients lived or had spent time in anaheim and nine had visited disneyland in september.

One patient who had not visited the park has died . the health agency says there have not been any new cases reported.

Legionnaires can cause severe pneumonia and is spread by mist from contaminated water.

Disneyland says it learned about the legionnaires cases on oct.27 and shut down and disinfected two cooling towers that had high levels of the bacteria. the towers will reopen after its confirmed they are no longer contaminated.