Preliminary report: outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the cities of Ulm and Neu-Ulm in Germany, December 2009

Preliminary report: outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the cities of Ulm and Neu-Ulm in Germany, December 2009 - January 2010

Published:2010-01-28 Issue:4 Volume:15 Page:
ISSN:1560-7917
Container-title:Eurosurveillance
language:en
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Author:

von Baum H¹,Härter G²,Essig A¹,Lück C³,Gonser T⁴,Embacher A⁴,Brockmann S⁵

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Ulm University Hospitals, Germany

2. Department of Internal Medicine III, Infectious Diseases, Ulm University Hospitals, Germany

3. German Reference Laboratory for Legionella, Dresden University, Germany

4. Public Health Services Ulm and Neu-Ulm, Germany

5. Department of Epidemiology and Health Report, State Health Office, Stuttgart, Germany

Abstract

Currently an investigation is ongoing to explore and control an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, affecting 65 people as of 22 January 2010, in the cities of Ulm and Neu-Ulm, south-west Germany. A hitherto unidentified wet cooling system in these twin cities is considered as the most likely source of infection.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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