Detected two cases of legionella in Zamora

Two new cases of legionella have been detected in the province of Zamora although it is not a outbreak of this disease, according to confirmed sources of the department of Health of the Meeting in the zamorana capital.
The first case affected a old one that day 4 passed away the past of December and that it resided in a residence of the zamorana locality of Benavente.
The second case is the one of another old one that resides in the residence the three trees of the zamorana capital

A old one passes away and another one remains entered in the ' Clínicó by legionella
The first case detected in Benavente day the 4 and the one of Zamora, last Friday

A old one of Benavente has passed away and another one is hospitalized in the ' Virgin of the Conchá de Zamora by legionella. First of the cases one detected the 4 of December in an asylum of Benavente and the last one, the past Friday in the residence of old of the Three You hoist of the capital. The Meeting of Castilla and Leon has adopted measures of prevention in both centers and insists on which it is not a outbreak.
The old one which it resided in the Asylum of the Mercy of the Hermanitas Poor of Benavente passed away Sunday in the hospital of the Virgin Insalud of the Shell , apparently, because of an infection of legionella that could the past have contracted in center 4 of December, date in which the disease was detected to him. The second registered case east month in the province has occurred in the residence of the Three You hoist of the capital and Friday last was known, according to informed yesterday the territorial delegate into the Meeting, Carmen Luis, who discards the existence of a bud, since each one lives in a zone different from the province " occurs the circumstance that in both cases the clinical panel responds to the one of people with chronic pathologies, age outpost and, therefore, with defenses very decreased, which contributes to that the bacterium has affected to them ", explained Carmen Luis
The old one which it resided in the Asylum of the Mercy of the Hermanitas Poor of Benavente passed away Sunday in the hospital of the Virgin Insalud of the Shell , apparently, because of an infection of legionella that could the past have contracted in center 4 of December, date in which the disease was detected to him. The second registered case east month in the province has occurred in the residence of the Three You hoist of the capital and Friday last was known, according to informed yesterday the territorial delegate into the Meeting, Carmen Luis, who discards the existence of a bud, since each one lives in a zone different from the province " occurs the circumstance that in both cases the clinical panel responds to the one of people with chronic pathologies, age outpost and, therefore, with defenses very decreased, which contributes to that the bacterium has affected to them ", explained Carmen Luis.
The prevention measures already have been adopted in both centers with the substitution of the showers and a hipercloración of the water.
From the Meeting it is insisted on which legionella is not transmitted either of person to person nor through the potable water consumption.

20th December 2000

The Meeting discards a outbreak and affects which they are isolated cases

The appearance of these two cases of legionella is isolated and they do not respond in any case to a outbreak, as remarcó the territorial delegate of the Meeting, that added that, at the moment, does not know either if the bacterium were contracted in the residences where they lived both affected. The analyses sent to the laboratory of Madrid will confirm at the end of month the origin of these cases.
The measures of prevention adopted by the Meeting began same day 4 in the asylum of Benavente and from the 15 in the residence of Zamora, where the showers have changed already and today same they will occur to char them informative to the residents and the employees.
The technicians of the Service of Epidemiología of the Meeting will move this morning until the center to inform into the prevention measures " and to tranquilize to all, since legionella is infected neither by the water to drink nor by having been in contact with affecting ", remarcó Carmen Luis.
The territorial, medical delegate of profession, added that the bacterium transmits itself by the water to temperatures that oscillate between 37° and 45° and that is " normal " that cases take place isolated, although in the province no in 1999 nor throughout this year was detected, with the exception of these two.
 What we want is that social alarm is not generated because it is confirmed that does not exist a outbreak, reiterated Luis.

20th December 2000

Calm in the asylum
The nuns of ' the Piedad' de Benavente wait for the sanitary results

In the Hospital of Our Lady of the Mercy, run by the Hermanitas of Old the Desamparados de Benavente, the calm reigns. In the asylum the preventive measures have been increased to avoid that more cases of legionella take place. Ever since the sanitary authority confirmed that one of the residents passed away as a result of the bacterium, the nuns keep absolute mutismo until receiving the result of the analytical one.
The superiora mother of the asylum of the Hermanitas of Old the Desamparados de Benavente did not want yesterday to emit no declaration until the results of the analyses are obtained that have taken place in the building. She only indicated that all the preventive measures have been fulfilled from the moment at which Health required it, as it is the change of the artichokes of the showers, since in them the bacterium usually intrenches . Few months ago in the center baths and showers reformed, but, as a result of the detection of the case of legionella, the water filters have been replaced.
But the nuns think that I infect of the old one did not take place in the asylum, but in another place. Natural from Villaveza of the Water, the man arrived at the center April the past. When her mother died, she went away to live with distant relatives, until his stomach disease (neumonía and other upheavals), advised his entrance in a center where she could be better taken care of.

The old one infected stays stable, although its state is serious

The sanitary authorities have intensified the preventive measures in the residences of old of Benavente and Zamora where the last cases of legionella have taken place, one of them with mortal result. In addition to the overhauls in the canalization systems, showers and the hipercloración of the water in these centers, also the monitoring in the hospitals is carried far where these patients have been treated to avoid that the bacterium proliferates. In the Clinical one of the capital it has been remaining in observation for four M-days D. M., of 86 years, that were transferred from the residence of the third age the Three You hoist. The patient, who suffers serious a hematológica disease, remains stable, according to the last part of the medical direction. The Meeting of Castilla and Leon and the Insalud agree in which it

M. D. M., of 86 years of age, entered for four days in the Virgin Hospital of the Shell with legionella, he has been remaining stable within the gravity of his state, since it suffers a severe hematológica disease, according to the last part facilitated by the medical direction. Technicians of Health of the Meeting have visited the residence of the Three You also hoist and the asylum of Benavente where the old one lived that passed away the last week as a result of the infection. The authorities have intensified the monitoring in these centers and the hospitals to prevent new contagios.
For want of which the laboratory of Majadahonda (Madrid) sends the results of the analyses, which will not be before 15 days, all the made cultures aim at that, indeed, as much the old one of 76 years passed away weekend the past, coming from the residence Our Lady of the Mercy of Benavente, like M. D. M., presented/displayed panels of legionella to their enter the Virgin Hospital of the Shell, so that I infect " was of external origin " and she did not take place in the hospitable center of the capital, informed yesterday the territorial delegate into the Meeting of Castilla and Leon, Carmen Luis Heras
Measures
The authorities insist on sending a reassuring message to the population, inasmuch as " it is two isolated cases, detected in points different from the province " and deny that it is a bud. To thus they showed yesterday as much the delegate it of the Meeting in Zamora like the advisor of Health, Carlos Fernandez Carriedo.
The provincial director of Insalud, Luis García Martinez, aims in addition who, although in 1999 did not detect any case of legionella, she enters within the normal statistics of the sanitary year that takes place " one or two panels, and usually agrees by these same dates ".

The PSOE requests to the Meeting that verifies the nonexistence of a outbreak of legionella

The solicitor Isabel Fernandez Marassa presents/displays a question in Cortes

The solicitor of the PSOE by Zamora, Isabel Fernandez Marassa, today presents/displays a question in Cortes de Castilla and Leon in which she solicits to know what measures have taken the Meeting to verify that a bud of legionella in the province does not exist. The Socialists indicate that both detected cases to date, one of them with mortal result, have like common denominator that they have taken place in residences of the third age.
The Socialist Isabel Fernandez insists to the Meeting so that, of urgent way, she both clarifies the origin of cases of infection by legionella - one of them, mortal registered in Benavente and Zamora and explains " the measures who have taken themselves in all and each one of the residences of old of the province ". For the PSOE, the physical distance between both patient infected it is not sufficient to discard the existence of a bud in the province, and emphasize that both lived in residences of third age.

The old one entered by legionella in the ' Clínicó receives the medical discharge

The patient rests in his room of the residence the Three You hoist
M. D. M., from 86 years of age and that remained entered in the Virgin hospital of the Shell seven days ago, he received yesterday the medical discharge, according to confirmed the medical director of the center. The patient, who in addition to the infection by legionella suffered a severe hematológica disease, responded to the processing favorably, and was authorized to at noon leave the ' Clínicó of yesterday.
The old one affected by legionella is yesterday from in its room of the residence the Three You hoist of the capital already restored of this infection, although, given to his age and the previous disease that suffered, it needs to take a rest life. Accompanied by their wife, M. D. M. develops the habitual activities and it has not been necessary that it remains in the clinic of the residence, according to have indicated sources of this center

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