Major legionella outbreak in NL

[url]https://nltimes.nl/2021/11/18/legionella-outbreak-schijndel-one-dead-least-10-sick[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2021/11/18/legionella-outbreak-schijndel-one-dead-least-10-sick ; 

Over ten people have become ill due to the legionella bacteria in Schijndel. One of them passed away. Most of the sick people are in the hospital, infectious disease control doctor Ariene Rietveld of GGD Hart voor Brabant said on Thursday. The majority of infected people are between the ages of 60 and 90.

The source of the infection has not yet been found and is being sought. According to Rietveld, the number of infected people is exceptionally high. She stressed that the outbreak is unrelated to the coronavirus.

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She said she feared that the over ten reports are the tip of the iceberg and that more people could become infected. This is all the more worrying because the source of the contamination has not yet been found. The municipality turned off the fountains in Schijndel as a precaution, according to Van Rooij. 

DJ Staffshortage due to the pandemic may have been a factor. Testing for CoViD is allready overstretched by far...hospitalcare close to break down...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bovenkarspel_legionellosis_outbreak[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bovenkarspel_legionellosis_outbreak ; 

The Bovenkarspel legionellosis outbreak (Dutch: Legionellaramp; Legionella disaster) began on 25 February 1999 in Bovenkarspel, the Netherlands, and was one of the largest outbreaks of legionellosis in history.^[1] With at least 32 dead and 206 severe infections, it was the deadliest legionellosis outbreak since the original 1976 outbreak in Philadelphia, USA.

Between 19 and 28 February 1999, the Westfriese Flora took place in Bovenkarspel, one of the largest indoor flower exhibitions in the world (later the Holland Flowers Festival). A vendor had several recreational hot tubs on display, with one of them filled from a long-inactive firehose and heated to 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit). In the water that had previously stagnated inside the hose, a very aggressive type of legionella pneumophila bacterium had developed.^[2][3] The vendor did not add chlorine to the tubs, since customers were not permitted in them.

DJ Schijndel is in the SE of NL...