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Hunt on for source of deadly disease
Charlotte Lewis-West , Health Friday, 12 June 2015, 4:27PM
The Canterbury District Health Board is hoping to find the second source of a potentially fatal disease after an outbreak in the region.
Six people have been hospitalised with Legionnaires disease, a rare but potentially lethal strain of pneumonia, since April.
They've all since been discharged.
The first four people contracted the disease from an industrial cooling tower in Hillsborough which has been treated.
Now the CDHB's working to identify the second source, which infected the last two sufferers...
Hunt on for source of deadly disease
Charlotte Lewis-West , Health Friday, 12 June 2015, 4:27PM
The Canterbury District Health Board is hoping to find the second source of a potentially fatal disease after an outbreak in the region.
Six people have been hospitalised with Legionnaires disease, a rare but potentially lethal strain of pneumonia, since April.
They've all since been discharged.
The first four people contracted the disease from an industrial cooling tower in Hillsborough which has been treated.
Now the CDHB's working to identify the second source, which infected the last two sufferers...