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The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health is investigating a confirmed imported case of Legionnaires' Disease involving a 50-year-old man living in Stanley.
The patient had travelled to the Mainland and Japan alone from July 15 and returned to Hong Kong on August 2. He presented with fever, cough, diarrhoea and muscle pain on July 29 when he was in Kyoto, Japan, and was admitted to Ruttonjee Hospital upon arrival in Hong Kong on August 2.
The patient is now in stable condition. His urine sample tested positive for Legionella bacteria.
Investigation is on-going.
This is the eighth case of Legionnaires' Disease reported to the CHP this year. Twenty cases were filed in 2010, 37 in 2009, 13 in 2008 and 11 in 2007.
Information on Legionnaires' Disease and advice on prevention can be found at the CHP's website, www.chp.gov.hk .
Ends/Friday, August 5, 2011
Issued at HKT 16:51
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