Andalusian Health Service (SAS) Four cases of Legionella in the Montecunto area of the town of Seville dos Hermanas were investigated.Health ministry sources did not elaborate on the conditions of the patients, whose results are being analysed. Seville Virgen Rocío Hospital Verify if they have a common origin for cooling towers or water supply installations in this urbanization. Public health epidemiologists of the Andalusian military government analyzed all the information to establish this putative relationship.
Veterans’ illnesses range from fever and mild cough to pneumonia, which can eventually lead to death respiratory failure. Legionnaires’ disease usually gets worse within the first week if not treated with antibiotics.
The disease got its name from a Legionnaires’ meeting in a Philadelphia hotel in 1976, and it was there that the disease was first described. It is a notifiable disease because it has an infectious agent that must be identified and eliminated. When this infection is named, the mortality rate is 10% to 20%. It’s much lower now, although it depends on the age of the infected person and the diseases they had before, like any other infectious disease. “In general, Legionnaires’ disease is curable when it infects young people, but the prognosis worsens when there is immunosuppression or respiratory disease or the elderly,” said the head of the Virgen del Rocío Infectious Diseases Unit. Jose Miguel Cisneros.
Standing water is a breeding ground for this bacteria, which is why it is often spread through refrigeration piping. In Alcalá de Henares, there was a focus long ago that more than a hundred people were affected by a cooling tower that sprayed aerosols into the street and infected passers-by by inhalation. There have also been outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease in hotels, public buildings and hospitals. “Low concentrations of this bacterium can cause a lot of disease, but diagnosis is much easier now because when a patient has pneumonia, it can be diagnosed A urine test similar to a pregnancy test, with Legionella antigens, allows early treatment and greatly improves the prognosis”, emphasizes Dr. Cisneros. The most common cause of pneumonia is the pneumococcus, usually treated with amo Xilin can be successfully treated, but Legionella is ineffective and requires quinolone antibiotics.
Legionella typically thrive in freshwater environments such as lakes and streams, and can become a public health problem when they reproduce and multiply. Spread in man-made building water systems, such as shower heads and sink faucetscooling towers, whirlpool tubs, fountains and decorative water fixtures, hot water tanks and water heaters.
after bacteria Legionella growth And multiplying in a building’s water supply, the liquid element can disperse into droplets small enough to be inhaled. Another less common way to get infected is by inhaling drinking water that contains Legionella, such as from a shower that hasn’t been turned on for a long time. It happens when water accidentally enters the lungs from drinking. But in any case, drinking tap water is not contagious.existPeople who have difficulty swallowing are the most likely to inhale these substances. Legionnaires’ disease does not usually spread from person to person, and the first symptoms are usually fever, cough, chills, or muscle aches.
Most healthy people exposed to Legionella do not become seriously ill, but people with diabetes, kidney failure or Liver failure, smokers, people with chronic lung disease or emphysema, and People with weakened immune systems or taking drugs that weaken the immune system (due to cancer or transplant) are at high risk.
Spain, France, Germany and Italy According to the annual report of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, 75% of the Legionella cases discovered in recent years have been concentrated in these places, with an incidence rate of 2.4 cases per 10,000 residents.
Two outbreaks in Spain this year; Legionnaires’ disease outbreak detected Alberique (Community of Valencia) Fifteen patients remain, including one in intensive care. The Ribeira Hospital started registering cases from the first week of August after a small number of cases were detected and alarm bells sounded.
A report also reports two cases of Legionnaires’ disease that may have originated in a hospital Sanitation facilities in Zaragoza last month’s
In August 2022, one person died and four others became seriously ill with Legionella. All of them had suffered from respiratory or blood diseases.after testing positive for a Legionella carrier.
Five deaths in Seville in 2009
In September 2009, an outbreak of Legionella in Seville infected 19 people and killed 5 of them.The source of infection is in Hotel Macarena, The capital of Andalusia.Serious irregularities in hotel cooling tower maintenance confirmed in investigation, but criminal justice process ends Pay a fine of €2,700 in 2017This does not include the compensation paid by the hotel company and insurance company.