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Hot water temps in all apartment blocks in Vilnius to be raised to fight legionella
BC, Vilnius, 15.03.2017.
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Print versionHot water temperatures in all apartment blocks in Vilnius will be temporarily raised to carry out a thermal disinfection of the hot water systems after three people infected with Legionnaires' disease have died in the Lithuanian capital, the local authority's Emergency Commission decided on Wednesday, reports LETA/BNS.
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"The Emergency Commission decided that all of the
city's buildings should be subjected to thermal shocks as a preventive measure
to ensure that there are no Legionella outbreaks in the future," Arvydas
Darulis, deputy director of the city's administration and head of the
commission, told reporters on Wednesday
Legionella bacteria cause Legionnaires' disease, a severe
form of pneumonia contracted by inhaling contaminated water droplets. Around
one in ten cases is fatal. The bacteria multiply at temperatures between 20 and
50C and die when the temperature of water rises above 65C degrees.
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