Silent but deadly, Legionnaires disease is a health risk for businesses to look out for in their building systems as we head into the peak of summer. We take a look at how digital thermometers from Martindale Electric can help target the disease. Legionella bacteria is found naturally in freshwater environments, such as streams and lakes, and rarely causes illness …
A new Royal Decree updating the prevention and control regulations of Legionnaires’ Disease in Spain, was approved on Tuesday, June 21. According to Spain’s Ministry of Health, Legionnaires’ Disease or Legionellosis is a bacterial disease of environmental origin that usually presents two different clinical forms: pulmonary infection or Legionnaires’ disease, characterised by pneumonia with high fever; and the non-pneumonic form, known …
A newly released report by New Brunswick Public Health says Organigram had no regular cleaning of cooling towers that were the source of a 2019 legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Moncton. The 60-page document, which doesn’t name the cannabis grower, examined the outbreak that infected 15 people with the severe form of pneumonia. It says the company’s facility had two new cooling towers …
The British Standard Institution issues guidance on water sampling to test for Legionella bacteria. It has recently published a new version of the standard: BS 7592: 2022, which considers routine monitoring and outbreak investigations. It is essential that anyone working in water sampling for Legionella control keeps abreast of new developments in this standard. What’s the purpose of BS 7592: …
The familiar combination of Brexit, production in China, and the supply chain have stuck again. They have changed our shopping habits, left our fridges empty, and now they are closing our swimming pools. The UK is beginning to grapple with a chlorine shortage that is predicted to get worse over the summer months. In this blog, we look at why …
Health officials have warned thousands of city workers could have been exposed to a Legionnaires disease as five people are hospitalised. Those who have spent time in Sydney’s CBD in the last ten days have been urged to monitor for symptoms of Legionnaires disease. Symptoms can include fever, chills, shortness of breath, cough and muscle aches, and if left untreated can …
Popular holiday resorts could be putting Britons at risk of a serious bacterial infection that can lead to life-threatening pneumonia, a series of new studies have revealed. Scientists have found that up to two-thirds of hotels in destinations including Greece, the Canary Islands and Morocco risk spreading the infection – called legionella, or legionnaires’ disease – which lurks in stagnant water. …
NSW Health has issued another warning after a sixth person has been infected and hospitalised with Legionnaires’ disease after exposure in the Sydney CBD area. The health body is continuing to advise people who have been in the Sydney CBD area in the past two weeks to be on the lookout for symptoms after all six people were identified with …
A growing cluster of Legionnaires’ disease cases in the Bronx has resulted in the death of one person and illness in 18 others, eight of whom are currently hospitalised, the New York City Health Department said Wednesday. The cases appear to be linked to four water cooling towers on top of buildings in the Highbridge neighbourhood of the Bronx, where …
A pensioner was left close to death in a month-long coma after he contracted Legionnaires’ disease during a “nightmare” package holiday to Benidorm. David Marshall, 79, said he might not recover from the severe form of pneumonia, which may have been caused by a faulty air conditioning unit. The retired union official explained that he had jetted off to the …