Two more cases of Legionnaires’ confirmed

Published on 26/07/2012 01:30

Two more cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been confirmed in a city outbreak in England, bringing the total number of people receiving treatment for the illness to nine.

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said all those affected are aged between their late 40s and mid-70s and are being treated at University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent. The HPA is also investigating two cases identified in early summer as being possibly linked to the current cluster.

Professor Harsh Duggal, director of the Health Protection Unit in Stafford, said: “Early microbiology typing results back from the HPA laboratories show that samples taken from some of the patients look very similar so far.”