Occupational Health Surveillance - Epidemiology Report
April 1, 2011
Two cases of lab-confirmed Mycobacterium avium complex infections (MAC) were reported to the New Mexico Department of Health in July 2009. The symptoms, exposures, and presence of MAC were indicative of hot tub lung, a hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) – like granulomatous lung disease with non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM).