Legionnaires Disease

Experts investigating reported outbreak in east German hospital

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 19th, 2003

Health care experts are investigating reports of an outbreak of Legionnaires disease at a hospital in the eastern German city of Frankfurt an der Oder and trying to determine if it was the cause of several deaths there.

Florian Engels, a spokesman for the Brandenburg State Health Ministry, said officials were working in conjunction with scientists from Berlin's Robert-Koch Institut to find out many may be infected with the disease.

The local newspaper, the Maerkischen Oderzeitung, reported that six people had died at the hospital from the disease. But Frankfurt prosecutors' office spokesman Ulrich Scherding told the paper further investigation...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2003-08-19)

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