The outbreak of Legionnaire's in Italy continues to grow, but its source remains unclear. Via Giornale di Brescia: Legionella, now it's chaos. The paper mill is cleared. Excerpt from the Google translation:
«14 days after the outbreak of the epidemic we returned to the starting point ». These are the words to love those with which the mayor of Montichiari, Mario Fraccaro, has communicated via Facebook the results of the investigations conducted by ATS that exclude the presence of legionella in the waters of the cooling tower west of the Montichiari paper mill.
One of the three in which the first findings of the same ATS had identified the bacterium, so as to indicate by the regional health authorities that precisely in the towers of three companies was to identify the cause of the epidemic. And if the Montichiari paper mill is so cleared in full, the similar insights on the other two companies involved - respectively in Calvisano and Carpenedolo - will arrive on Monday.
Even if they were negative, it would be really all have to be redone. The question remains: what is the cause of the epidemic , which has 468 cases of pneumonia, an out-of-scale figure for the period, with 45 positivities ascertained to legionella?
Not the Chiese for the same ATS, which also in the sampling of the waters of the river that flows along many of the countries at the center of the contagion has found traces: "The bacterium is present in nature, especially in water, but the human contagion occurs through nebulized droplets, while also for irrigation purposes, the waters of the Chiese are used only for flow, not for sprinkling ».
