Chief health officer Clare Looker says woman in her 90s died after becoming ill on Tuesday as others in intensive care battle severe pneumonia
Victoria’s chief health officer Dr Clare Looker says investigations into the source of Melbourne’s legionnaires’ disease outbreak is focused on Derrimut and Laverton North.Victoria’s chief health officer Dr Clare Looker says investigations into the source of Melbourne’s legionnaires’ disease outbreak is focused on Derrimut and Laverton North.Victoria’s chief health officer, Dr Clare Looker, on Friday confirmed the death of a woman aged in her 90s.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “That’s why we’re urging people with symptoms to seek medical advice immediately, especially if you’ve been in metropolitan Looker said authorities were still looking for a contaminated water source – most likely a cooling tower – that was responsible for the outbreak, and had narrowed the search to Laverton North or Derrimut.
The health department has also written to a broader group of 400 cooling tower operators across Melbourne asking them to submit test results. “We hypothesise there’s a few things that have contributed to that, presumably a reasonably high load of legionella in the cooling tower that has caused this, if that’s what it is, and potentially also the weather patterns,” Looker said.
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