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The public prosecutor's office in Milan is investigating, for the time being, unknown persons and without a crime hypothesis, cases of Legionella with three deaths in Bresso. Meanwhile, four more people have been infected, in addition to the 20 already affected. Samples were taken from all the homes of infected persons and "other sensitive areas". For prosecutors, "it is not an emergency, even if clearly on the fact that it will happen cyclically at Bresso, we will check." A survey between 2014 and 2015 was opened and archived
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Four other people were infected with Legionella bacteria, in addition to the 20 already affected, including three deaths. This was learned at the Milan Procuratorate
According to what was known in the context of the investigation coordinated by deputy lawyer Tiziana Siciliano, who is in close contact with the director of health and the public health of territorial ATS) of Milan, 4 other cases were found in people who contracted in Bresso, Milan, an infection with legionella bacteria, in addition to the 20 already affected, including three deaths.
The Crown officially opened an investigation file today, without any crime hypothesis or investigation. According to reports, in these cases, however, it is difficult to discover the "source" of the infection. The presence of the bacteria, which is very common, is generally related to the low level of maintenance of water pipes and pipelines. The investigators also pointed out how in Parma in 2016 there were 43 cases of contagion with two deaths in a district of the city
Legionella: in 2014 already a man died in Bresso
From Campania to Lombardy are different regions where victims of Legionella have been recorded in recent years. After the two deaths of the last days in Milanese, another woman died today in Bresso, Milan, where in 2014 a 78 year old man died for the same reason. Even then, when there were six cases in the area in less than a month, the infected people were all old and the water was under indictment: it was badumed that the bacteria had hit the victims while taking a shower .
contagion would have occurred in two very specific neighborhoods and the first case could have occurred with the shower water. At the time, the mayor of the city also speculated that the bacteria could have developed during some work at the aqueduct in the beginning of the country. Among the precautions that took place, the operations of sanitation on the wells, filters and pipes of the aqueduct of the city
After a series of cases, in Lombardy and Rome, in the Bresso municipality also ordered to raise the temperature of the sanitary water at least 65 degrees Celsius. Of 28 samples, the ASL had found 4 positive to the bacteria. Even in neighboring municipalities, in this region, people had stopped using the fontanelle by drinking bottled water and inspections and samplings had been conducted in single-family homes.
Also in 2014, a 77-year-old woman, residing in Luzzara (Reggio Emilia), died due to a legionella infection. The old woman had the first symptoms (fever and mental confusion) at the end of a stay in a tourist village in Brindisi.
The following year, in Naples, the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Naples was closed precaution for three days as a result of the Legionella death of an employee of the University of Naples. university. In Parma, in 2016, the deaths of two women aged 77 and 86 years. In 2017, she was referred to Bologna at the age of 59: her family requested an investigation into the causes of death, to check whether it had been contracted at the hospital of Sant & # 39; Orsola, during a transplant
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