{"id":238143,"date":"2025-06-19T13:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=238143"},"modified":"2025-06-19T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:39:29","slug":"health-warning-after-three-people-contract-legionnaires-disease-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=238143","title":{"rendered":"Health warning after three people contract legionnaires\u2019 disease in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An urgent health warning has been issued for people in an inner Sydney suburb amid several confirmed cases of legionnaires\u2019 disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three people from Potts Point, aged between their 40s and 70s and unknown to one another, have contracted the disease, NSW Health have confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NSW Health is advising anyone who visited the Potts Point area between June 8 and June 18 to be vigilant and monitor symptoms of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-238145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Three cases of legionnaires\u2019 disease have been traced back to Potts Point in Sydney\u2019s east. Picture: Supplied\/ Janice Haney Carr\/ Public Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legionnaires\u2019 disease is a lung infection caused by the legionella bacteria, and can trigger symptoms including a fever, chills, a cough and shortness of breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without treatment, the disease can be fatal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disease is not spread person to person and can sometimes be caused by environmental sources such as a cooling tower atop a large building, which can become contaminated by the bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-238144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-7.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-7-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-7-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The disease is spread by a bacteria commonly found in cooling systems atop high buildings. NewsWire \/ Simon Bullard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Eastern Sydney local health district public health unit director Vicky Sheppeard said all three of those who contracted the disease have been admitted to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople can be exposed to the bacteria if contaminated water particles from a cooling system are emitted into the air and breathed in,\u201d Dr Sheppeard said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Legionnaires\u2019 disease can develop up to 10 days after exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Legionnaires\u2019 disease can develop up to 10 days after exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":238146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5026,17123,2139],"class_list":["post-238143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-nsw","tag-potts-point","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238147,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238143\/revisions\/238147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/238146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}