Legionnaires’ — Australia
Expert in environmental microbiology Dr Harriet Whiley, explains the symptoms and causes of legionnaires’ disease after an outbreak in Sydney [New South Wales (NSW), Australia].
Health authorities are scrambling to contain the most fertile [legionellosis] season in recent history after a man died in a fresh outbreak of legionnaires’ disease.
The death — the 2nd in 2 months — is associated with an outbreak in Burwood, which has emerged as a new epicentre of infection. Burwood Council is
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