Posted by Denis Denis --Previous Message--
on 4/13/2004, 8:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Legionnaire's On Airplanes?????"
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Read my
http://www.q-net.net.au/~legion/Legionnaires_Disease_Unusual_Cases.htm
: hi Heather,
: Sorry to hear you lost your father.
: The air conditioning systems in planes
: are unlike buildings, using compressed
: air and are not water based. Hence the
: plane is not a Legionella source.
: One does not contract LD from only indoor
: environments. Legionella can be contracted
: whilst just walking around outside. For
: example
: BBC HQ outbreak, Central Paris outbreak, etc.
: Although I have never visited Lithuania,
: I would guess the probable sources:
: 1) hospital;
: 2) apartment;
: 3) external source (outside water fountain
: or cooling tower)
: I would suggest that investigation standards
: and testing in Lithuania would be somewhat
: lower than the rest of Europe.
: regards,
: John Herbert
: : My father died this past Oct. from
: Legionnaire's disease....he had just come
: from a visit abroad to Lithuania...he
: traveled on Scandanavian Air and Lithuanian
: Airlines....he did work in a hospital but no
: one in the hospital has come down with the
: disease--he was quite important so they did
: extensive testing at the hopsital....the
: person he shared his apartment with is fine
: as are all of the other people that have
: stayed there....does anyone know if
: Legionnaire's Disease has been found to exist
: on airplanes?
:
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