On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:53:03 +0000, Nigel Molesworth
wrote:

On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:26:23 +0000, Andy Hall wrote:

I'm willing to bet that I'm the only person in this newsgroup who has
suffered from Legionella bacteria - really, I have!

What was the source as a matter of interest?

Spa holiday in Malta. Didn't get "full blown" Legionnaires' Disease,
that is when the bacterial infection gives you pneumonia. But I was
very ill for about a month until they found out the cause. The
annoying thing is that it was the first thing that I thought of!

It was over a year ago, but I'm still not feeling 100%. Of course I
couldn't prove where I got it from, so no compensation.

The strangest thing was people's reaction. They'd say "Hi how are
you?" Then take a step backwards when I replied ;-)

I had kind of the opposite happen. I contracted a bacterial
infection which led to pneumonia. The hospital asked where I had
recently been. As it happened, I had been staying in a hotel where
the window of the room looked out over a roof where there was air
conditioning plant. They put two and two together and made 3. It
turned out not to be legionella. Nevertheless, I was in hospital for
a week with the pneumonia and remainder of the original bacterial
infection. It was debilitating, as you say - took over a month before
I could do much at all, a further three months to being reasonable but
best part of 9 to be back to normal.



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..andy