Lorry driver contracts Legionnaires from washer bottle

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Category: Health and Safety, Legionella

Help Lincolnshire lorry driver Adrian Denniss is still recovering after contracting Legionnaires’ disease while working in France.Mr Denniss, from Boston, was diagnosed after a chance visit to hospital following a minor road accident.It is believed that he was infected by droplets from his lorry’s contaminated windscreen water bottle which had blown through an open window in to his cab.

via BBC News – Lorry driver contracts Legionnaires from washer bottle.