Argentine Minister of Health said Mystery pneumonia is Legionnaires’ disease (Legionnaire) is a disease that is monitored around the world. but no person-to-person contact and was found in Thailand in 1984
Today (4 March 2022), the BBC news agency reported that Carla Vizzotti, Minister of Health. of Argentina revealed that in the past two weeks In Argentina, at least 11 people have been diagnosed with pneumonia and four have now died. Will the cause of the mysterious disease be an emerging disease or not?
In fact, such a disease is Legionnaires’ disease Legionnaire, an infectious disease caused by Legionella pneumophilla bacteria.
from the disease investigation The source of the infection was found at the same clinic in San Miguel de Tucuman, in the northwestern state of Tucuman.
But the Argentine public health authorities stressed that This is only preliminary and is still in the process of further diagnosis.
As for “legiannare disease”, information from the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Association of Thailand states that it is a disease that has been occurring for a long time. by the first patient in the world who was found to have this type of pneumonia in the year 2490
Later in 1957, a large outbreak occurred in the group of American soldiers. The meeting was held in Philadelphia, Minnesota, United States, by the name of this meeting, the American legion convention, this meeting of the outbreak. As a result, 182 people in the meeting got sick and 29 died.
Then, 6 months later, the medical team discovered that The cause of this outbreak is a type of bacteria. Hence the name Legionella pneumophilla.
Legionnaires’ disease is a disease that foreign countries attach great importance to. In European countries, the European Working Group for Legionella Infections (EWGLI) has been set up specifically to monitor the disease, as the mortality rate of patients from the disease is as high as 4.45 per cent per million inhabitants. 1996)
for in Thailand The first patient with this disease was found in 1984 and found almost every year. both Thais and foreign tourists But there are not many infected people. And the Thai tourism sector has always had measures to control the disease. Because this bacteria grows well in water sources. But have not found any reports that can be infected from person to person
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