After weeks of closing hotels, swimming pools and sports facilities, the RKI warns of legionella bacteria in drinking water. What operators can do now.
Typical symptoms are: fever and cough. For patients with these symptoms, doctors should not only think about the coronavirus at the moment. Because it could also be an otherwise rather rare pneumonia caused by Legionella. In 2019, four people with legionella pneumonia were treated in hospital at the Würzburg University Hospital. It is currently a patient. But soon there could be more. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) warns of an increased legionella risk after weeks of closure of hotels, sports facilities and swimming pools. Have the drinking water systems of these facilities been …
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