One of 16 patients confirmed as having contracted Legionnaires’ disease in Staffordshire has died, says health agency
Eight patients remain in hospital after an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease.
Sixteen people have been confirmed as having contracted the disease in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, since Tuesday.
No details have yet been released of a patient who died on Saturday. The cause of death has also not been revealed.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said on Sunday that no new cases of the disease had been reported. All those infected had been aged between their late 40s and mid-70s.
The disease was not hospital-related and the premises were safe for patients and visitors, the HPA added.
A spokesman for the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke said: “Eight patients remain in hospital and all are in a stable or improving condition. Three patients were well enough to go home today and have been discharged.”
A spokesman for Glenfield hospital, Leicester, said: “We are treating a patient transferred from the University Hospital of North Staffordshire confirmed with Legionnaires’ disease who is in a critical but stable condition.”