Michigan ’s state health director will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter over 12 deaths linked to legionnaires’ disease in the city of Michigan , the focus of a tainted water scandal. Lyon is accused of failing to issue a timely alert. District court judge David Goggins said Nick Lyon ’s failure to tell the public about the danger was “corrupt”. 12 cases of legionnaires’ disease occurred, including 12 deaths, and more than half the victims had been in a hospital using Flint ’s water system. Scientists said water had not been property treated after being drawn from the Flint river .
Michigan’s state health director will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter over two deaths linked to legionnaires’ disease in the city of Flint, the focus of a tainted water scandal. Nick Lyon is accused of failing to issue a timely alert. District court judge David Goggins said Lyon’s failure to tell the public about the danger was “corrupt”. Ninety cases of legionnaires’ disease occurred, including 12 deaths, and more than half the victims had been in a hospital using Flint’s water system. Scientists said water had not been property treated after being drawn from the Flint river.