(CNN) Heavy mold growth was found in the linens used at two University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospitals where five mold-infection-related deaths occurred since October 2014, according to a report. In the cases of two other patients who succumbed to the mold outbreak, the medical center settled without litigation for $1.35 million each. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center commissioned the report confidentially from hospital environmental specialists Andrew Streifel and Michael Buck in September 2015, after three people died. Details of mold reportThe 16-page analysis documents evidence of mold at the hospitals and in nearly every tested area of the Paris Healthcare Linen facility, which handled the hospitals' linen, in Dubois, Pennsylvania. The medical center called CDC officials into the two hospitals to investigate the outbreak in September 2015.

Source: CNN January 28, 2017 07:27 UTC