NEW ZEALAND: Recommendations after fatal legionella outbreak - (NZPA)
April 30, 2008 – 10:59 pmhttp://www.stuff.co.nz/4503695a10.html
An outbreak of legionella that killed three Christchurch people in the winter of 2005 has, according to this story, prompted a raft of recommendations from a coroner.
During an inquest held in Christchurch last year, Southland-Central Otago Coroner Trevor Savage heard evidence from health officials, scientists, building experts, local body officers and company executives.
Ross Hern, 56, Peter Jones, 48, and Valmai Finlayson, 87, died of legionnaires’ disease in Christchurch Hospital in June, July and August 2005.
Their deaths followed an outbreak of 19 legionella cases clustered in southwest Christchurch, an outbreak compared by experts giving evidence at the inquest to some of the worst worldwide in the past few decades.
Attention focused on a water cooling tower at the Ravensdown fertiliser plant in suburban Hornby as a possible source of the disease — a serious and sometimes fatal form of pneumonia.
However, in the inquest findings just released Mr Savage accepted it was impossible […]
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