The cases appear to be centered around a medical facility in San Miguel de Tucumán, health officials said. Symptoms include pneumonia, fever and abdominal pain.
Police officers stand outside Luz Medica hospital, where nine people infected with bilateral pneumonia of unknown origin have been treated, in Tucuman, Argentina, on Sept. 1, 2022.Sept. 3, 2022, 11:51 PM UTCAn illness that has stricken 11 people in Argentina, killing four, may have been the result of Legionella, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease, health officials said Saturday.
“The suspicion is that it is an outbreak of legionella pneumophila,” Dr. Carla Vizzotti, the country’s health minister, said in a statement.The Legionella bacteria can be transmitted when people breathe in small droplets of water or accidentally swallow water containing the bacteria into the lungs, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It can cause Legionnaires’ disease, a serious type of pneumonia.
The Tucumán province ministry of health said Saturday that a fourth death has been tied to the cluster. The deceased was described as a 48-year-old man with comorbidities who had been in serious condition at a hospital, the ministry said in a statement.A 70-year-old woman who had gallbladder surgery at the clinic was among the deceased. She was at first considered the cluster’s “patient zero,” but her case will undergo further analysis, Ruiz said.
The World Health Organization’s agency for the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization, said Argentina’s Ministry of Health informed it of the initial cluster of six patients on Tuesday.
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