“It’s a long way from over,” Lyon told the Associated Press. 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. The charges against Lyon, who was appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder, are part of an ongoing investigation into Legionnaires disease, which has sickened more than 100 people and killed at least 16 since it began spreading last 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.
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. The charges against Lyon, who was appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder, are part of an ongoing investigation into Legionnaires disease, which has sickened more than 100 people and killed at least 16 since it began spreading last 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.