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Medical Examiner Confirms Fifth Guest Death at Disney World in a Month

The county medical examiner declined jurisdiction in the Nov. 8 Saratoga Springs case, leaving no public coroner report.

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A view of Disney's Riviera Resort, at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Monday, June 22, 2020. The hotel opened Monday as a part of select resorts in the first group to reopen since being shutdown by the coronavirus pandemic in March. Other properties that opened Monday include The Villas at the Grand Floridian, Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort, Boulder Ridge Villas and the Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Wilderness Lodge, Kidani at Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas; the Beach Club Villas, the BoardWalk Villas, Old Key West, Polynesian Villas & Bungalows, and Saratoga Springs. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)
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Overview

  • The Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed a Nov. 8 death at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa and said the body was released to the individual’s personal physician.
  • Five guest deaths have been reported across Walt Disney World properties from Oct. 14 to Nov. 8, spanning multiple resorts.
  • Earlier cases include two suicides at the Contemporary/Bay Lake Tower on Oct. 14 and Oct. 23, a man in his 60s who suffered a medical episode at Fort Wilderness on Oct. 21, and a woman in her 40s who died after a medical emergency on Nov. 2 at Pop Century.
  • Florida authorities have reported no evidence that the incidents are connected.
  • Initial details of the Nov. 8 emergency surfaced via a dispatch-tracking X account, and Disney and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office have not issued public statements.