The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement this week there wasn’t any abnormal incidence of Legionella with “only” three cases officially recorded in Macau this year.
The patients in the three cases were a 62-year-old man, a 66-year-old woman, and a 43-year-old woman who were diagnosed with the potentially fatal disease in August, September and this month respectively.
According to the statement released by the bureau on Sunday, SSM officials on December 7 inspected a building near Praça de Luís de Camões, where the last patient lives. The bureau took water samples from the building as well as from the fountain in the nearby Luís de Camões Park. None of the samples taken from the patient’s building showed any signs of Legionella bacteria, according to the statement.
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