Canada: Outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in Calgary, Alberta

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Source: http://metronews.ca/news/edmonton/4...onnaires-disease-confirmed-in-sw-calgary-ahs/


December 7, 2012 Updated: December 7, 2012 | 5:10 pm
Six cases of Legionnaires? disease confirmed in SW Calgary: AHS
By Katie Turner Metro Calgary

Officials continue to investigate what caused an outbreak of Legionellosis in Calgary.

Alberta Health Services has confirmed six cases of Legionellosis, also known as Legionnaires? disease, all reported within a roughly 16 kilometre radius in southwest Calgary.

Medical Officer of Health Dr. Judy MacDonald said Friday that the patients were both male and female and range in age from 51 to 78. They all live or work in the same area.

Despite the concentrated area, MacDonald said none of the six patients know each other, and officials are at a bit of a loss as to how they were exposed to the bacteria...

 

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Re: Canada: Outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in Calgary, Alberta

Source: http://www.calgaryherald.com/health...+outbreak+eludes+officials/7750103/story.html

Source of legionnaire?s disease outbreak eludes officials
By Jamie Komarnicki, Calgary Herald December 27, 2012 6:03 PM

As the number of people hospitalized by an outbreak of legionnaires? disease in southwest Calgary has risen to eight, public health officials remain puzzled over the source of the potentially deadly infection.

Tests of possible sources in the workplaces and homes of the patients have so far come back negative, said Dr. Brent Friesen, Alberta Health Services medical officer of health...