PRO/EDR> Legionellosis – Europe (02): Belgium (OV)

Legionnaires’ — Belgium
An additional patient, the 19th, was admitted to the hospital in Flanders, [East Flanders province] suffering from legionellosis.
This case comes in addition to the 18 others who have been exposed to _Legionella_ bacteria in the Evergem area [East Flanders], right next to Ghent, and who developed legionnaires’ disease, a lung disease that is not transmitted from human to human.
Of the total of 19 patients, 2 men died: one Monday night [20 May 2019] and the other [Wed 22 May 2019], in 2