Face Masks Don’t Cause Legionnaires’ Disease
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A viral social media post is spreading the falsehood that wearing a face mask to slow the spread of COVID-19 could cause Legionnaires’ disease. But Legionnaires’ disease is caused by bacteria that festers mostly in warm, standing water, not in human saliva.
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The latest falsehood to cast doubt on the safety of face masks makes the bogus assertion that wearing one can cause Legionnaires’ disease. It can’t.
As we’ve written before, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wearing a face .
