The building will be closed until it is safe to reopen.

Employees or recent building visitors having flu-like or pneumonia-like symptoms should seek medical care.

The disease cannot be spread from person to person, according to health officials.

The Oakland County Sheriff's Office temporarily closed its administrative building in Pontiac on Dec. 5, and it'll remain closed through the weekend, after preliminary water tests detected the presence of Legionella bacteria.

Testing was initiated after a custodial employee assigned to the building was diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease, according to a Dec. 4 news release from the sheriff's office.

Personnel in Building 38E were working remotely Dec. 5. About 200 people work in the building, which houses the sheriff, undersheriff, detective

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