Over a hundred guests were taken on Saturday in a hotel in Porto, after being made “recalls the sanitary water” on Friday, told TSF José Mayan, director of the Hotel Boa Vista at the mouth Douro. There are suspicions in the presence of the bacterium network Legionella .
The Legionella is a bacteria that lives in natural aquatic environments, like the surface of lakes, rivers, hot springs, tanks. Among the risk locations are also artificial systems supply and distribution network of water cities, cooling towers, facilities like showers, air conditioning systems, humidifiers or sources.
Hotel guests of harbor were advised to leave the Friday night building, following a recommendation of the Directorate General for Health (DGS), said Mayan. Were installed in the hotel 145 guests.
On Antena 1, the Directorate-General of the North Health has indicated that it has already sent the samples collected at the hotel to Ricardo Jorge Institute.
Speaking to Lusa, as the late afternoon, the Director General of Health, Francisco George, confirmed that a hotel of Porto triggered “procedures to treat their land network of water, given the suspicion of contamination by the bacterium Legionnaires’ disease . “
The initiative undertaken in the hotel in the city of Porto is not, however, related to the 12 identified cases of disease of the Legionaries in Northern health region in the last month and a half, he said. And he stressed the distinction between Legionnaires’ disease and eventual colonization of water by bacteria.
Stressing that there is no cause / effect relationship between the hotel situation of the Port and Patients reported in the Grand Harbour, the Director General of Health confirmed that two cases of hospitalization “continue to develop positively.”
In the last month and a half were recorded 12 cases of disease of Legionnaires in persons residing in Northern health region.
Of the 12 identified cases, and according to the epidemiological information available, there are two people who have been out of the country during the presumed period of occurrence infection.
On this episode the DGS in fact issued a statement on Friday which said that “the situation notified is not comparable to the outbreak that occurred in November 2014 in Vila Franca de Xira, either by the magnitude and gravity, still want the quick expression that characterized the epidemiological curve. “
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