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Is your business ready for the new Corporate Manslaughter Bill? The UK Government’s draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill was published on 23 March 2005. Under the draft, an organisation will be guilty of the new offence of corporate manslaughter if the way in which any of its activities are managed or organised by its senior managers causes a person’s death through a gross breach of a duty of care. The maximum penalty is an unlimited fine ... more >> Unwelcome guests in our luxury hotels Some bathrooms, spas and pools at top hotels have potentially fatal bacteria, inspectors warn They are meant to be the finest examples of five-star hotels in London, where celebrities, tycoons and visiting dignitaries pay up to £4,000 a night for rooms of unparalleled luxury. Yet according to documents obtained by The Observer, facilities even at these top hotels might not always be as deluxe as they appear ... more >> Legionella tests at Uluru to take at least a week It could be more than a week before tests prove if a European tourist was infected with the potentially fatal legionnaires' disease at an Uluru hotel. The man has returned to Norway and is now being treated by local doctors who will run tests to confirm the type of legionella bacteria that caused the infection. These results will be compared with readings taken during routine monthly testing of cooling towers at the Desert Gardens Hotel near Uluru, which returned a positive legionella bacteria reading last week ... more >> Patient who overcame leukaemia killed by a dirty hospital shower A father of three died after he contracted an infection from a hospital shower on the day that he was due to be discharged after successful treatment for leukaemia. The hospital had failed for many years to act on guidance about the safety of its ageing hot water system, a court was told. The failure led to Daryl Eyles, 37, contracting legionnaires’ disease from a dirty shower head. He had just been told that he was in complete remission after enduring months of chemotherapy ... more >> Thousands of specimens collected for study and treatment of Legionnaires' disease were intentionally destroyed after the Special Pathogens Laboratory of the VA Medical Center in Oakland closed last year. For years, the lab had been doing work quite openly for hospitals outside the system. The closure left patients hard-pressed for testing sites, possibly jeopardizing people's lives ... more >> Infectious Disease, Legionella Experts Urge Hospitals to Reduce Infection and Protect Patients NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--“Hospital infections affect two million Americans every year, costing 100,000 lives and adding $30.5 billion to the nation’s healthcare tab,” said Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D., founder and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID). “This issue is especially critical for New York right now,” she said, because infection rates of New York hospitals will be made public beginning in 2008. Dr. McCaughey, Legionella expert Janet E. Stout, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, and Bruce Farber, M.D., Chief of Infectious Diseases at North Shore University Hospital, N.Y., met with New York-area hospital executives and infection control professionals ... more >> Legionella found in water cooler Businesses are being urged to change the filters in their water coolers regularly, following the discovery of the potentially deadly bacteria legionella in a cooler at Christchurch Hospital.
Proper use of respiratory gear urged The Centre for Health Protection has advised people to keep domestic
water filters and home respiratory equipment clean after a bacteria
causing Legionnaires' disease was found in a 66-year-old patient's oxygen
respirator and kitchen tap water filter. Compensation for Legionnaires Disease death The patient was infected while in hospital in Orihuela The regional health service has been ordered to pay 78,000 € compensation to the family of a woman who died from Legionnaires Disease in the Vega Baja Hospital in Orihuela in August 2002. The Valencia High Court of Justice said in their ruling that the 71 year patient was infected by an outbreak of Legionnaires Disease and died from the septic shock it caused ... more >> Travel-associated legionnaires’ disease in Europe: 2005 In 2005, 755 cases of travel-associated legionnaires’ disease with onset in 2005 were reported to the EWGLINET surveillance scheme by 20 countries. A total of 85.8% of cases were diagnosed by the urinary antigen test, and 37 cultures were obtained. Twenty nine deaths were reported, giving a case fatality rate of 3.8% (down from 5.6% in 2004). Ninety three new clusters were identified, 36.6% of which would not have been detected without the EWGLINET scheme. One hundred and twenty two accommodation sites were investigated and the names of nine sites were published on the EWGLI website. Thirty two sites were associated with additional cases after a report was received to say that investigations and control measures had been satisfactorily carried out. This level of re-offending is greater than in previous years and care should be taken to ensure the guidelines are being properly applied, especially in Turkey ... more >> Illness in worker group connected to compost The Public Health Unit in Tairawhiti District Health on Friday confirmed it was investigating a cluster of an illness in a group of horticultural workers in Gisborne. Three people were admitted to Gisborne Hospital earlier this month and all have now been discharged after receiving treatment. The incident was confined to a single working environment that involved
the use of compost. They confirmed that two of the cases tested positive for legionnaires disease, although ... more >> US judge lowers Celebrity Cruise Lines' jury award in Legionnaires' disease case NEW YORK: A judge has tossed out all but $10 million (€7.75 million) of a $190 million (€147 million) jury verdict ordering a company that makes water pumps to pay Celebrity Cruise Lines Inc. in a case involving an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease on a cruise ship in 1994 ... more >> Killer disease exercise is held at Arena HEALTH professionals in the region have prepared themselves for a potential
mass infection of a killer disease. Enforcement officers from each of the 10 Greater Manchester local authorities ... more >> Proper use of respiratory gear urged The Centre for Health Protection has advised people to keep domestic
water filters and home respiratory equipment clean after a bacteria
causing Legionnaires' disease was found in a 66-year-old patient's oxygen
respirator and kitchen tap water filter.
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