Outbreak of legionnaire’s disease in two groups of tourists staying at camp sites in France

A Infuso; B Hubert; D Dumas; M Reyrolle; S De Mateo; C Pelaz; C Hemery; I Pérez

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Outbreak of legionnaire’s disease in two groups of tourists staying at camp sites in France

A Infuso^1,2, B Hubert¹, D Dumas³, M Reyrolle⁴, S De Mateo⁵, C Pelaz⁶, C Hemery⁷, I Pérez⁸
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Affiliations: ¹ Réseau National de Santé Publique (RNSP), Saint Maurice, France ² European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) ³ Service de Médecine Interne, Centre Hospitalier, Millau, France ⁴ Centre National de Référence des Legionella, Lyon, France ⁵ Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ⁶ Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ⁷ Cellule Inter-régionale d'Epidemiologie Ouest, Toulouse, France ⁸ Dirección de Salud, Huesca, Aragón, Spain

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Citation style for this article: Infuso A, Hubert B, Dumas D, Reyrolle M, De Mateo S, Pelaz C, Hemery C, Pérez I. Outbreak of legionnaire’s disease in two groups of tourists staying at camp sites in France. Euro Surveill. 1997;2(6):pii=157. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.02.06.00157-en

Abstract

On 11 June 1996, three suspected cases of legionnaires’ disease in a group of 42 Dutch tourists were reported to the local public health authority by Millau hospital in south west France. The group (group 1) had been touring with caravans and staying at d