Flushing out the system

摘要

Legionellosis is a collective term for diseases caused by bacteria of the genus Legionella, an opportunist pathogen which normally inhabits warm, moist or aquatic environments. The most serious and potentially fatal is Legionnaires' disease. In England and Wales, data from Public Health England, which co-ordinates a national surveillance scheme for the disease, reported 532 cases in 2018, compared to 448 reported cases in 2017, and 359 in 2016.