AU: Legionnaires outbreak in Melbourne's northeast

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Legionnaires outbreak in Bundoora
Yahoo!7 with AAP Updated December 3, 2012, 6:03 pm

Residents in Melbourne's north-east are being warned of a legionnaires' outbreak that has already put three people in hospital.

Two men, aged 72 and 56, and a 38-year-old woman were treated at the Austin Hospital after contracting the potentially deadly bacterial infection, which authorities believe is linked to air conditioning cooling towers.

Victoria's chief health officer, Dr Rosemary Lester, said the three cases were detected in the past month.

Two of the patients live and work in Bundoora, and the third patient in an adjoining suburb...

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Melbourne suburban alert on legionnaires' disease

Lucie van den Berg
Herald Sun
December 03, 2012 7:21PM

RESIDENTS in Melbourne's northeast are being warned to be on high alert to flu-like symptoms after an outbreak of legionnaires' disease.

Three cases of the infection, which is acquired by breathing in water droplets containing bacteria, were detected in Bundoora in November...

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Legionnaires' scare over for Bundoora
11 Dec 12 @ 09:35am by Suzanne Robson

THE Victorian Health Department is no longer investigating Bundoora as a source of an outbreak of legionnaires? disease.

The department yesterday revealed tests on a cooling tower in the suburb had shown it was not the source of the disease.

Samples were taken from a tower after three people ? two men and one woman aged 38, 56 and 72 - were initially diagnosed with legionnaires?.

But further testing has found that only two of the patients had the disease.

The cooling tower was shut down on Friday, November 30, and disinfected as a precaution...