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malaise

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Thu Jun 7, 2012, 10:18 AM Jun 2012

Legionnaires' disease cases rise in Edinburgh

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/07/legionnaires-disease-cases-rise-scotland
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The number of people affected by the legionnaires' disease outbreak in Edinburgh has increased further to 51 cases as it emerged that the man who died earlier this week was a builder, Robert Air.

Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish health secretary, told the Scottish parliament on Thursday morning that overnight the number of confirmed cases in the outbreak around south-west Edinburgh had risen to 24, with 27 suspected cases.

As health officials in Edinburgh warned there would be further cases, the family of Robert Air, 56, a father of two from the Seafield area of east Edinburgh, said he had complained of feeling ill on Monday but died within hours of arriving at hospital on Tuesday.

Health officials believe they have identified the most likely sources of the outbreak, at 16 industrial cooling towers over four sites spread across the south-west and west of the city, and had used a "shock treatment" earlier this week to kill off the bacteria.
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Expect outbreaks of all sorts of diseases on the planet as the rich and their puppet governments use their neo-liberal bullshit to rob everyone else.
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