AU: Legionnaires' disease in Sydney city center

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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...act-Legionnaires-disease-outbreak-Sydney.html


Three more people contract Legionnaires' disease after an outbreak in Sydney city centre

Eight people now confirmed with the disease that can be deadly
Thought to have been contracted from air conditioning systems
Areas of concern are Druitt, Market, Sussex and Elizabeth Streets
Health authorities are continuing to search for the source
Symptoms include a fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath

By Charlotte Mortlock For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 13:20 GMT, 12 March 2016 | Updated: 14:02 GMT, 12 March 2016



Yet another three people have been diagnosed with the potentially fatal Legionnaries' disease.

It is believed that they contracted the disease from a cooling tower in Sydney CBD...

 

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Source: http://www.smh.com.au/national/heal...th-in-town-hall-outbreak-20160316-gnk7a8.html

Patient dies from legionnaires' disease in Sydney's Town Hall outbreak
March 16, 2016 - 10:03PM
Harriet Alexander
Health Reporter

An inspection of the city's cooling towers has failed to identify the source of the Legionnaires' outbreak encircling the Town Hall area.

Health authorities confirmed on Wednesday that they had inspected and sampled all cooling towers and other potential Legionella sources such as decorative fountains in an area stretching from Elizabeth Street to Clarence Street, and Bathurst Street to King Street...

 

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Source: https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/31237889/legionnaires-may-be-linked-to-nsw-hospital/


Fears Sydney Legionnaires outbreak could have come from another source
Melissa Hills and AAP - AAP on April 2, 2016, 8:12 am

There are fears an outbreak of legionnaires disease which started at a Sydney hospital could also have come from another unknown source.

Three people - two men aged 64 and 76, and an 85-year-old woman - have tested positive to the potentially fatal disease and all spent time in Kogarah, including around St George Hospital.

They began to show symptoms between March 22 and 26...

 

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Source: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/...coured-legionnaires-source-after-new-outbreak


Sydney CBD scoured for legionnaires' source after new outbreak
Investigations into the source of another outbreak of legionnaires' disease in the Sydney CBD will continue on Thursday.
Source: AAP
5 May 2016 - 6:52 AM UPDATED 1 HOUR AGO

City of Sydney officials will continue testing water coolers in the CBD on Thursday following another outbreak of legionnaires' disease.

One person is fighting for their life and two others have been hospitalised since contracting the infection in the past week.

The latest outbreak, announced on Wednesday, comes after an elderly man died from the disease in March...