Legionnaires' cases linked to MEL airport

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Start date Apr 22, 2013

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Apr 22, 2013

Victoria's Chief Health Officer Dr Rosemary Lester has urged doctors to be alert to symptoms of the form of pneumonia after four people who had travelled through Melbourne's Tullamarine airport were diagnosed over the last month. The people had all travelled overseas or interstate and returned through Melbourne Airport.

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"Consider Legionnaires' disease in patients presenting with an influenza-like illness or pneumonia who have travelled through Melbourne Airport Tullamarine between 1 March 2013 and 12 April 2013," she said in the memo sent on Friday.

That's a fairly long time frame, hopefully no one here was affected.

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