Nine people died of Legionella in Aragon last year

Nine people died of Legionella in Aragon last yearEffie / Javier Bellfer

nine dead Last year in Aragon, due to Legionella, the disease 102 cases were found For all of 2022, 97.1% of cases will require hospitalization, with the most affected age group being over 64 years old (55.9% of cases), according to data from the Public Health Epidemiology Bulletin.

Specifically, 2 of these cases were associated with a family outbreak, and 17 cases had a travel history during the incubation period. Aragon’s incidence rate in 2022 is 7.7 cases per 105 inhabitants

with 8.9 cases in Teruel; 7.6 in Zaragoza and 7.1 in Huesca.

According to the notification data, as of 2023, there will be 48 registered cases in the community.To be precise, it was detected last week social health centers for people with the disease from Zaragoza.Legionnaires’ disease is a disease caused by bacteria Legionella pneumophila and other diseases of the same genus, manifested in two clinical forms: one is pneumonia This can be serious and require hospital treatment flu sheetmild in nature.

According to the latest report released by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control in July last year, 2021 is the year with the highest notification rate for Legionnaires to date. Four countries (Italy, France, Spain and Germany) accounted for 75% of reported cases globally. The 38% increase in travel-related cases compared to 2020 may be due to the lifting of travel restrictions, as travel-related infections were significantly lower in 2020 compared to pre-pandemic years.

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this factor Changes in national policies and monitoring systems, aging populations, and the design, infrastructure, and maintenance of water systems in buildings may explain the detected increases. According to the Aragonese Bulletin of Epidemiology, changes in weather patterns in Europe and around the world can also affect the ecology of Legionella in the environment and exposure to aerosols.

Aragon issued an order dated 1 March 2004 stating that Measures involving general surveys of facilities, installations and risk equipment and subsequently the Government of Aragon’s Decree No. 136/2005 of July 5, which establishes special measures for the prevention and control of Legionnaires’ disease.

On the basis of this legislative basis, since 2001, the different departments of the Provincial Public Health Sub-Directorate for Environmental Health, in coordination with the General Directorate of Public Health, have formulated the Legionnaires Disease Prevention and Control Surveillance Program,

The aim is to protect the health of citizens through sanitary surveillance of facilities where there is a risk of the spread and spread of Legionella.