Legionnaire's disease infects six and kill one in Bresso ( Milan)

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In Bresso and hunting to bacterium-killer. In the land of 26 thousand inhabitants on the border of Milan, the technicians of the Asl take samples of water from the houses and examine the fountains. We must discover what is the origin of the contagion of legionella that struck six inhabitants. All in a few days, all over 70 years and all the inhabitants in the area to the north-east. One has just died. In Italy fall ill of legionella 1,300 people a year. What is striking in the case of Potter Heigham and simultaneity of the infections and the closeness of the houses.

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Re: Legionnaire's disease infects six and kill one in Bresso ( Milan)

Another victim near Milan

Another victim of legionella near Milan. The viurus, after having nipped a 76 of Bresso, killed a woman in Cinisello Balsamo. It's the second victim in Milan. It happened two weeks ago, but the news spread just now. The woman-as reported by The day--had a double residence: Cinisello and Marotta, seaside town in the Marche region of Italy, where he spent the holidays. Back in Milan would have accused the early symptoms and so it took shelter to Carate Brianza, where the woman is also expired. The Asl monzese initiated the investigations in conjunction with the health authorities pesaresi.In the apartment building where he was on vacation, the woman would have been found the bacterium. In a statement the Lombardy region, explains that ' preventive purposes it is recalled as the legionnaire's disease occurs in two forms: Pontiac fever, much like an influence and so rarely identified; pneumonia with fever, cough, muscle aches, and in some cases even difficulty breathing. Generally the more severe forms occur in poor people as alcoholics and chronically ill.



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