Croatian media reported yesterday that three out of five patients infected with legionella died in the Zagreb Clinical Hospital Center (KBC).
This was confirmed by the director of KBC Zagreb, Ante Corusic.
As Beta reports, it was previously reported that the patients infected in the Zagreb hospital, at the Rebro location, were seriously ill and that legionella had drastically worsened their primary illness.
The assistant director of the hospital, Milivoj Novak, told that the bacterium was isolated in the hospital’s water supply, which is why the discharge of hot water, which is a suitable environment for the development of bacteria, and other sanitary measures were initiated.
Legionnaires’ disease is atypical pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacterium.
Epidemics of this disease are mostly connected with the plumbing of hospitals, hotels, and public baths or swimming pools. It is generally not transmitted from person to person.
It is treated with antibiotics, azithromycin, quinolones, or rifampicin.
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