The changing rooms at Escola EB 2,3 Duarte Pacheco, in Loulé, were closed this Friday, March 22, after a laboratory analysis detected the presence of Legionella in the water network.
In a statement, Carlos Fernandes, director of the Group, explains that the analyzes were collected on March 13th.
The changing rooms will only be reopened “after the network has been disinfected and the respective authorization has been obtained from the health authorities”.
Although the bacteria from Legionella, there are no known cases of illness so far.
Contagion by bacteria Legionella It occurs, not from person to person, but through the inhalation of hot water droplets suspended in the air.
Its symptoms usually appear five to six days after aspiration of the bacteria and range from headache to diarrhea and vomiting.
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