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Millions of people who visited Sydney’s CBD over Christmas and New Years are being urged to stay alert for symptoms of legionnaires’ disease after seven people were diagnosed with the debilitating lung illness.
NSW Health issued a health alert on Wednesday for anyone who visited the city centre since Christmas Eve, or the past 10 days, to monitor for symptoms including coughing, fever, shortness of breath and headaches.
It comes after three women and four men, aged from their 20s to 70s, were admitted to hospital with pneumonia before being identified to have been carrying the legionella bacteria, which causes legionnaires’ disease.
The people are believed to have visited locations in the Sydney’s CBD between Bathurst St, Sussex St, Elizabeth St and Circular Quay, all locations frequented over the holiday period, in the 10 days prior to their symptoms.
More to come.
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